Chapter 290 Come on, Ade, kill the gods with me
Ade ran wildly in the rainy night.
But he did not run steadily because he had lost an arm and could not maintain sufficient balance. So he would stumble and fall every few steps, then get up awkwardly and continue running forward.
It’s almost here. It’s almost here.
The blood-healing hunter statue is right in front of you.
"Why are we so embarrassed?" The saint's voice sounded in his mind again, "We should have a more noble attitude."
"Shut up!" Ade roared.
"Why do we still want to resist?" Ade's face was half ferocious and half calm. He said, "We are about to wake up from a boring dream."
"This is not a dream!" Ade shouted, "I am different from you! Different!"
"Haha, you can no longer distinguish between dreams and reality." The saint shook his head, "What you are pursuing now is nothing but an illusion. It has no meaning at all."
Ade gritted his teeth and ignored the saint.
Because he could feel that his consciousness was blurring and his body was losing control.
The personality called "Saint" was rapidly eroding his sanity. He could still fight back before, and even tried to make the voice disappear, but now he couldn't do it.
He couldn't do it anymore after he recalled what he had done a month ago.
"Children from poor families often dream about what it would be like when they are rich and have enough food to eat. They sleep in leaky houses, letting the biting cold wind blow through their bones, but they refuse to wake up, because once they wake up, everything in the dream is really a dream." The saint was still speaking leisurely with Ade's mouth, "And you are that child now, but the difference between you and him is that you don't have to face the biting cold wind. As long as you are willing, the whole world will bow down to you."
"...I don't want any shitty world!" Ader couldn't help but yelled again, "I only want Vic! Only Vic!"
The Saint sighed and said leisurely, "It seems that you are only one step away from being completely awake."
Ade didn't know what the biting cold wind was, nor did he care.
He knew Vic was dead, but he still had to find Vic's body because they had said they would live together and die together.
So after finding Vic's body, Ade decided to kill himself by breaking his neck just like he had bitten off his arm before, in order to kill the "saint" in his heart.
He will be the only hound in the entire sacrificial field to die with the hunter.
"It's a dreamy idea." The Saint could see Ade's purpose and said with a smile, "It's like a child who saw a large piece of cooked meat in his dream and couldn't wait to enjoy it, but it was destined to be in vain."
"You can't stop me!"
"Stop you? Why should I stop you?" the saint said, "I just want to say that you can't do it, just like the child who has never eaten meat can never smell the real smell of meat in his dreams."
"You're talking nonsense!"
"I'm not talking nonsense." The Saint said with a smile, "Didn't you realize that you had already tried it once a month ago?"
...tried it once?
"Look at the road ahead and think about what you are going to do now," the saint said. "You will feel familiar."
After the saint said this, Ade felt dazed again.
Just like when he was traveling with Yvina before.
He felt the road under his feet was so familiar.
Every tree and every stone wall is so clear.
It seemed as if he had been here more than once.
Ade stopped suddenly.
Because he saw a sharp claw mark on an old tree in front of him.
And that claw mark...
He lowered his head and looked at his paws.
"Do you remember?" The saint said with a smile, "This is not the first time you have walked this road, not even the second or third time, but... countless times."
Before Ade could figure out what the word saint meant.
With a loud "boom"!
Another flash of lightning lit up the darkness.
In this moment of dazzling daylight, Ade found himself in front of the blood healing statue.
And under the statue, there was a person with his back to him.
That's... Vic!
Ade recognized the figure and his mind went blank for a moment.
Vic... is still alive?
Just like he had done in many years, after seeing Vic, Ade couldn't help but pounce on him.
In the white light that had not yet dissipated, Vic turned his head and looked at Ade with half shock and half happiness.
"Ade, are you okay?" Vic smiled and stretched out his hand to him.
And Ade stretched out his paw as usual and let out a happy cry.
At this moment, he was like the child who saw delicious food in his dream.
Until he saw Vic's smile freeze, and then his figure disappeared along with the brief white light.
Ade realized that what he stretched out was not a furry little claw, but a sharp blade that could cut through stones. What he made was not a cry of joy, but a roar that could shatter a person's internal organs.
And in front of him was a skeleton that was cut in half.
The scars on the bones were exactly the same as those on his claws.
Ade's mind went blank.
"Do you remember?" The Saint said with a smile, "A month ago, you didn't abandon Vic. Instead, you caught up with him after waking up and killed him with your own hands."
Ade's body began to tremble as more memories came flooding back.
He saw Vic lying in a pool of blood, half of his body cut off, and he stepped forward again under an irresistible impulse, and then...
"You ate him," said the Saint.
“Aa ...
Ade knelt down in front of Vic like a madman, clutching his head tightly, his sharp claws piercing deeply into his flesh.
"Hahahaha, did you remember?" the saint said happily, "You ate all of his flesh and blood. There was nothing left."
"Shut up! Shut up!!!" Ade roared.
"This is devouring." The Saint did not stop. "From then on, you obtained all his qualities and memories. You truly replaced him."
"Shut up! You're the one controlling me! You're the one controlling me!"
In desperation, Ade exerted force suddenly, trying to take off his entire head and bury it with Vic along with the damn saint.
But then he realized that his arms, which could easily chop off rocks, were now completely powerless.
His body was refusing to commit suicide.
"I am controlling you? That's right and that's not right." The Saint said slowly, "Because I am you and you are me, remember? This is our mission... Open your eyes and look around."
……around?
Ade turned his head slowly and looked around the statue.
At this time, another flash of lightning exploded.
In the pale world, he saw countless skeletons around the statue that were almost identical to the one in front of him.
At this moment, more faces appeared in Ade's mind and he remembered more names.
"Do you remember?" The saint said leisurely, "We have been through this for the past hundred years."
“This is the mission of the saints.”
…
"More than one Vic?" Yvina's voice was trembling. "What does this mean?"
"To be precise, 'Vic' is just a symbol and the goal of the Saints." Bai Wei, who was walking in front of Ivana, said calmly, "Over the past hundred years, the Saints have found countless 'Vic' and led them to the same path."
"You mean..."
"Yes." Bai Wei said, "Ade, also known as the Saint, his encounter with Vic was not an accident, but a template, a mature template. The entire Wildfire Sect operates based on this template. You should know what this template is. The guy just told you."
"Beasts devour humans and then replace them," Yvina whispered.
"Yes." Bai Wei nodded. "For a hundred years, the Wildfire Cultists have been learning how to become human beings, because their leader is also learning how to become a god. Becoming a god is different from becoming a human being. It requires more energy and more 'knowledge'. Saints are the means by which they learn about the outside world, and they are the most advanced."
Ivana shook her head palely: “I still don’t understand, if this is true, why did Ade lose his memory?”
"Because if you have memories, you are not studying." Bai Wei said, "Do you know? His Highness Courage is full of hunters' corpses. They were brought by the Wildfire Hounds at the lowest level."
"…The bottom one?"
"Well, because these hounds betrayed their hunters out of fear in the Hall of Trust." Bai Wei said lightly, "So they are destined to be unable to understand the noble virtue of trust, and can only become the lowest level of believers."
Ivana thought of something, and her eyes widened little by little: "Then what we saw in Valhalla..."
"They are mid- to high-level believers, and they can even become cult leaders," Bai Wei said. "Because these hounds passed the test of the Hall of Courage and Trust in ignorance, they can also obtain this quality, and their status in the Wildfire Sect will naturally be higher."
Ivana's fist clenched a little bit: "Then Saint..."
"It's the person who makes it to the end." Bai Wei said, "Wildfire wants to become God. If it wants to become Him, it naturally needs the best. No matter what quality it is, it must be the best. There is no doubt that the one who is willing to choose the Blood Healing Statue for the sick hound is the most worthy of devouring. So every time the Saint's goal is to lead the hunter it values to the Blood Healing Statue, but even this is not enough. God needs too much 'cognition', so it must repeat this process over and over again, and it has been repeated for a hundred years."
Bai Wei paused.
“This is the truth about the saints.”
Ivana's body continued to tremble.
She thought about how, over the past hundred years, the "Saints" had killed outstanding people like Vic one after another, just for the so-called "cognition."
And she, or rather they, all the saints of Senluo including her grandmother, actually became its accomplices.
"Why do they do this?" Ivana was on the verge of collapse. "Why do they do this?!"
"Because Wildfire is a guy with low self-esteem and arrogance." Bai Wei raised his head and used [Contemplation] to look at all the hunter statues in the sacrificial field. "Wildfire has a very complicated feeling towards its former master Senluo. It disdains Senluo's arrogance and stupidity, but it is also afraid of Senluo's strength. So it will try every means to understand and learn all the qualities that Senluo advocates, but it will also add the most irresistible devouring on top of it. It's probably the idea that 'no matter how good or powerful you are, you will be eaten by me in the end, so I am at the top of the food chain'. This is why so many excellent 'Vik' can only be eaten by 'Ade' in the end."
Bai Wei explained it in great detail, and Ivana finally understood everything.
"So that's why you say that Ade's awakening is irreversible?" Ivana whispered, "He will definitely become a saint?"
"Of course, because it is a saint, Ade is just the last of its countless journeys." As he said this, Bai Wei felt something and looked up at the night sky.
The rain has stopped, but the dark clouds have not yet dispersed, and thunder is lurking in the clouds, roaring continuously.
But the roar was different from all the previous ones. It was very regular, as if something was breathing in the clouds.
"It is about to become Him." Bai Wei said softly.
Ivana's body trembled, and she understood what Bai Wei meant.
Wildfire is going to become a god. That means Ade and Vic...are gone.
Ivana wanted to cry, but her tears had already dried up, so she just shook her shoulders weakly.
Is it all going to end?
Senluo, Ade, Vic...it's all over.
An indescribable feeling of powerlessness rose in Ivina's heart, so she asked Bai Wei one last question.
"If everything is already determined, why do you come here?"
"Because I'm betting on the last possibility."
Ivana was stunned: "The last possibility?"
"Yes." Bai Wei felt the powerful consciousness that was rapidly awakening and said softly, "The last possibility."
…
Under the blood healing statue.
The pure silver wolf opened its new arms and embraced the sky wantonly.
He had completed the last step, stepping on the corpses of countless hunters, and there was no more confusion and struggle in his dark green eyes.
"Finally, I understand everything." He chuckled and said, "This feeling... is really good."
He laughed wantonly, and the thunder was synchronized with his breathing.
The world is in his hands.
He thought so.
Then, he heard footsteps behind him.
Without looking back, he knew who was coming.
"You're finally here." He transformed back into Vic's appearance, turned around and looked at the newcomer with a smile, "Father Uru."
"Yes." Bai Wei stopped and replied with a smile, "You came just in time."
"What are you doing here now?" the saint said with a smile.
"What should I say? I'm here to advise you not to become a god."
"Oh?" The Saint raised his eyebrows, "How do you persuade me?"
"Come on, Ade." Bai Wei stretched out his hand to the saint and said word by word, "Come with me to kill God."
(End of this chapter)
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