Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Luo Mi hugged Anos for a while, then suddenly remembered that there was a God’s Wisdom beside him. So he quickly let go of Anos, coughed awkwardly twice, and asked about the important matter: “What exactly is going on with the God?”
The light in the orb dimmed considerably, and after a moment of silence, it said, “This should be a rather long story. God… was originally a transmigrator chosen by me, the system, from a certain world. According to the requirements of the main system, we are to maintain the plots of each small world and reverse their crises of collapse.”
“I had a very pleasant working relationship with him, and we became very good, well, friends or partners… until after we came into this world, we gradually discovered that the orders given to us by the main system seemed to be wrong— those orders did not seem to be to reverse the collapse of the world, but to accelerate the death of the world.”
Luo Mi asked doubtfully, “Does this world really have an original story? Does it really have a main system?”
Until just now, he thought it was only a system trick to fool him.
“Yes, but it’s not quite the same as the one I made up for you.” The God’s Wisdom recalled for a moment, “Generally speaking, this world once experienced something similar to the apocalypse. A monster that could not be analyzed rationally scattered human seeds, and after humans multiplied into a race, they absorbed them back as food, and so on.”
Luo Mi recalled the scene he saw when he used the Great Prophecy spell to travel back to before the First Era— the God who was still a time traveler was facing a monster made up of holy light and various human limbs and organs.
Anos, who had been listening in the background, finally asked, “What was that monster?”
“According to our detection and analysis, although the monster is very powerful, it has no rationality, no intelligence, and can hardly be called a life form. It should be more like a natural disaster. It did not do this for any purpose; it was just a natural phenomenon— although this natural phenomenon was too terrifying for the humans of this world.”
Luo Mi guessed God’s choice: “So you decided to rebel against the main system and get rid of that monster.”
The God’s Wisdom nodded: “Back then, he was just like your Anos now, and naturally he would have made the same choice.”
Why did he later become the God? Luo Mi didn’t ask the question aloud, knowing that the God’s Wisdom would surely provide the answer.
“As his system at the time, I naturally did my best to help him— but the power gap between us and that monster was so great that it would be difficult to kill it in a normal battle… so he came up with a solution.”
At this point, the God’s Wisdom paused for a moment.
While Luo Mi was still guessing what method it was, Anos spoke up: “The one you just used?”
The God’s Wisdom laughed: “Yes. His choice was to let the monster devour him, and at the moment of being devoured, to exchange his fate with the monster… Of course, a lot of preparations were made beforehand— at that time, I still had the support of the main system, so I managed not to fail and killed the monster.”
“After that, he absorbed the monster’s power, successfully severing my connection with the main system, making me an independent individual, and also removing the world’s greatest threat, so that everything could proceed peacefully and smoothly… That’s what I used to think.”
At this point, the God’s Wisdom’s tone gradually lowered, “Unfortunately, he gradually began to have problems later on.”
Luo Mi asked with concern, “What’s the problem?”
“The problem stemmed from the fact that he absorbed all the power left behind by that monster.” The God’s Wisdom gazed quietly at the statue that God had transformed into, and suddenly sighed, “There is a limit to the power that our souls can withstand. He absorbed so much in one go that his humanity was like walking on the edge of a cliff, and he could fall at any moment, eventually becoming another new monster without reason and completely insane.”
Luo Mi had previously harbored doubts about the god’s later transformation, but now he finally understood.
It took Luo Mi a lot of steps to integrate even a small amount of angelic power that God had separated from him, all under the system’s arrangement. How much more so would it take to absorb divine power that could devour an entire world?
Luo Mi couldn’t help but ask, “So the God gradually went mad, even tearing his own soul apart?”
The God’s Wisdom unexpectedly denied this conjecture: “No, he tore his own soul apart in the first place to save himself.”
Anos’s eyes flickered.
“He wanted to slowly peel away his humanity, leaving only basic rationality and cognition in his body, and then let the part that belonged to humanity slowly digest such a huge power, and…” God’s Wisdom paused, his tone somewhat melancholy, “If he couldn’t save himself, then he would kill himself.”
Anos listened quietly and slowly exhaled.
Luo Mi also let out a sigh of relief: “No wonder God said those words to the young God’s Heart.”
—If you can grow up, you will eventually go back there and destroy it completely.
It was the monster of the past, and the god of the present.
The orb of God’s Wisdom swayed up and down: “Yes. Unfortunately, it was a wrong choice. After his soul was stripped away for the first time, his remaining humanity was no match for madness… Then he made a second wrong choice: to strengthen his obsession and keep it rational.”
What was his obsession?
“It’s a bit embarrassing for me to say this, but I’m the only one who can say it,” God’s Wisdom said with a self-deprecating laugh, then continued, “He only had two obsessions left: one is me, and the other is going home.”
Luo Mi was taken aback.
“He ultimately succeeded. The two obsessions, once they deepened, maintained his rationality and freed him from his tendency to go mad. But they also led him to abandon everything, existing solely for these two obsessions.”
“I’ve always been by his side, but even if I’m just a little closer to his separated soul, even if I just treat the God’s Heart as our child, he can’t tolerate it. So he wiped away the God’s Heart’s memories and cast him down to the mortal world…”
“If that were all, it would be fine, but his second obsession led him to finally reach out to the land and people he had once risked his life to protect.”
Luo Mi silently repeated, “Go home?”
“After losing contact with the main system, I lost the coordinates of the world he was born in. If he wants to go home, he can only search for it slowly on his own. The Void Sea outside the world is a very dangerous place. It might be okay to leave the protection of the world for a short time, but to wander and search for a long time, he needs an immense amount of power, more than he had at the time— at least comparable to an entire world.”
Upon hearing this, Luo Mi recalled the distant and illusory blue star above the god’s head in the prophecy.
In that scene, only this image was not accurately interpreted.
That symbolized the homeland of God.
The God’s Wisdom seemed to be thinking about something. He remained silent for a long time before smiling and continuing, “Before he was about to separate the fragments of his soul, he told me that if he really went mad, I should not hesitate to kill him as soon as possible. In the end, he did not become a monster, but I still had to set up this long trap to send him to his death.”
Anos remained silent for a long time before saying, “I have not regained my memory of these things.”
“He erased them.” The God’s Wisdom turned to him. “Because he still didn’t really want to do it, he felt guilty, regretful, and resistant. The more he struggled, the more ruthless he became, the more he would directly erase his own knowledge and memories of this aspect… The reason your souls hate each other is largely because you represent his conscience and remorse.”
The object of regret is not someone else, but oneself.
Anos’s eyes darkened, and he tightened his grip on Luo Mi’s hand.
The God’s Wisdom glanced again at the statue that God had transformed into, and sighed bitterly: “The plan I devised is essentially a replication of his past behavior. If he still remembered who he was and had enough humanity, he would definitely be able to see through this trap… But if that’s the case, he wouldn’t have become the god he is now.”
This was an unsolvable problem.
God lost his humanity, and thus met the end he had written for himself.
I wonder if, in the moment God fell, he remembered the determination and will he had when he faced the monster that threatened the world alone.
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