Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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So, the God’s Wisdom is the system?
Luo Mi asked definitively, “Then do you know why I came here…?”
He hesitated for a moment, not uttering the word “this world”.
But the God’s Heart calmly replied, “I don’t know what the God’s Wisdom wants to do.”
Luo Mi couldn’t help but mutter, “Then why did you have Anos bring me here?”
He was now almost certain that the demon Anos had kidnapped him from the Holy City on the orders of the God’s Heart.
The God’s Heart smiled slightly and said, “If you hadn’t become the new Pope, I wouldn’t have involved you in this matter. But since the power of God has transferred from the Holy Son’s body to yours, we can’t help but consider whether God has discovered our plan and is preparing to destroy it through your hands— fortunately, your consciousness is intact and has not been affected by God.”
These words immediately eased the expressions of both Luo Mi and Anos.
Anos asked, “Was it done by the God’s Wisdom as well?”
“By extracting features similar to angels from the three demon races and using them as a support to evade the erosion of angelic power, it is equivalent to erecting a barrier between your soul and angelic power… Judging from the influence on you, it should be the work of God’s Wisdom.”
Luo Mi breathed a slight sigh of relief, and his vigilance and unease towards the system lessened somewhat.
At least it seems that the system is not completely opposed to him.
“As for your third question…” God’s Heart glanced at Anos with its silvery eyes and said calmly, “All the chosen ones must be killed by my power.”
Luo Mi frowned and pursed his lips.
After the explanation, he understood why the God’s Heart did this: if humans are the lambs shepherded by God, then the chosen ones are the “lead sheep” who lead these lambs to God’s slaughterhouse, and the simplest and most brutal way is to kill all the chosen ones.
However, the thought of innocent John and Lina still made Luo Mi feel somewhat uncomfortable.
The two children had done nothing wrong.
However, he had no better way to provide, so he could only sigh and remain silent.
Seemingly sensing his emotions, the God’s Heart chuckled: “There is one more crucial thing, concerning the Ark.”
Luo Mi looked up, his attention drawn to the question: “By the way, what is the Ark? Why is it said that Anos is the key to unlocking the Ark?”
He glanced at the Heart of Light and the projected oval silver sphere, then suddenly realized, “Actually, it’s talking about you?”
The God’s Heart smiled and shook his head, his gaze falling on Anos, who had heterochromatic eyes: “No, it’s talking about you.”
Anos frowned: “You didn’t tell me this before.”
“Because you were not ‘complete’ before.” The God’s Heart stretched out his hand, and silvery-white ripples spread from his hand, flowing throughout the church, bringing with them hazy shadows, as if they had dived into the deep sea.
Anos’s voice was calm, but the content was slightly sharp: “Will I ever be whole again?”
The God’s Heart showed no displeasure, maintaining that perfect yet somewhat artificial smile: “Although your current fusion is only temporary and achieved with the help of magic, you are already relatively complete and capable of activating the ‘Ark’.”
Luo Mi asked in confusion, “What exactly is the ‘Ark’?”
The God’s Heart waved its hand, and the phantom image that filled the entire church gradually became more recognizable. It looked like a city with tall walls, somewhat like the holy city of Bethlehem.
“At the end of the Second Age, the false angels who devoured the God’s Wisdom were cast down by God and became demons, thus creating the Demon Realm; before the end of the Third Age, God no longer cared for mankind, allowing the demons to devour human territory and almost wipe out the human race, so this age is called the Dark Age.”
“In the middle and late stages of the Third Age, God seemed to have a change of heart in the repentance of mankind and commanded me to descend to earth to help mankind resist evil. It was during this process that I established the Papacy and discovered some of God’s purposes, including the end times and his attitude toward mankind, etc.”
“Although God did not favor me, at that time I had no intention of betraying the God who created me and was like a father to me. I only wanted to deceive God’s eyes and ears, and at least create a refuge for some innocent people to escape the end times— my choice was to build the holy city of Bethlehem into a fortress, which was the original ‘Ark’. In the Third Age, God let mankind fend for itself and did not care much about the world, which gave me this opportunity…”
“Unfortunately, just when we were about to succeed, God discovered us.”
At this point, Luo Mi’s heart jumped: “And then?”
The God’s Heart curved his lips into a smile and pointed to himself: “The result was that God was furious, tore my soul apart, and told me that since I wanted to build an ark for ignorant humans, then as I wished— I would become part of the ark myself.”
Luo Mi’s pupils widened as he stared at him in astonishment.
“The ‘me’ you see now is a part of my soul that was incorporated into the ‘Ark’ by God back then.” The God’s Heart’s tone was as gentle as water, as if he were just telling a story. “Since then, I have been able to stay in the core of this small ‘Ark’ and watch one era after another pass by.”
Clearly, the “Ark” was not put to use.
The initial complex emotions in Anos’s heterochromatic eyes gradually subsided, replaced by other emotions: “So how did you get here?”
The God’s Heart looked at him and smiled, “I have to thank you— or rather, you from the past.”
“Whether it was God’s wicked sense of humor or his inability to create another angel, he repeatedly sent my remnant soul, which he had collected, to the earth to help the Church grow stronger and better shepherd humanity… But we are, after all, of the same origin, and I can influence my remnant soul to a certain extent, and even forcibly manipulate its body. This gave me a clever way: to lure my remnant soul into awakening, and with the help of the achievements of later eras, to continue to perfect this unfinished ark.”
As he spoke, the surrounding scenery changed, sometimes displaying dazzling and magnificent magic circles, and sometimes dense and complex circuits.
“The magical civilization of the Fourth Age reached its zenith, allowing me to liberate the Ark’s core from the Holy City’s seal and transfer it to the Omega Empire for construction and enhancement; the electrical civilization of the Fifth Age gave me hope for solving the Ark’s greatest problem— how to accommodate as many people as possible in need of shelter. Unfortunately…”
Luo Mi sighed: “It’s a pity that the Fifth Era only existed for about five hundred years before it was destroyed by God… Did God destroy the Fifth Era so early because he sensed the threat posed by the Ark?”
The God’s Heart nodded: “Yes. Afterwards, God even swapped the territory of the Omega Empire with the Demon Realm, exiling me here and placing me in the place farthest from the human world.”
So that’s how it is… Luo Mi sighed again, frowned, and asked her question: “Why didn’t God just destroy you and the Ark?”
“I don’t know either. God is not lenient with me, so it’s probably not because He has any paternal love for me that He spared me.” God’s Heart smiled self-deprecatingly. “I don’t know what kind of restrictions God has placed on me, or whether He just wants to see me try my best but fail to change the outcome. But that doesn’t stop me from doing what I should do.”
Luo Mi remained silent for a moment before asking, “What is the current state of the Ark?”
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