Chapter 3034 The Birth of a Man

"Brother Gnostic, let me ask you one last time...Are you really unwilling to come with me?"

Metatron looked at Joan unwillingly, with tears in his eyes.

Joan took a deep breath, forced himself to overcome the urge to soften his heart, and shook his head solemnly.

"I still have unfinished tasks in Vales Tianyu, at least I can't leave now."

"I really don't understand, what else in the world is more important than saving your life?!" Metatron interrupted him excitedly, "Brother Gnostics, the great Noah was unfortunately murdered by githyanki pirates. I have lost too many compatriots, and of all compatriots... the last thing I want to lose is you, dear..."

"Don't worry, the githyanki can't hurt me." Joan tried to comfort her to calm down, but it was of no avail.

"Even if you are not afraid of those despicable pirates, don't forget that there is a giant statue of adamantine outside the window. No one knows how terrifying that monster is better than me. The Ball of Whispering is no match for it! When Odes was attacked You were also there when the beholder clan attacked, and our city was almost flattened by that giant statue, so you still have nothing to do with it?!"

After hearing what she said, Joan hesitated and finally told the truth.

"Don't be afraid, that's my colossus."

"Your colossus?" Metatron's eyes widened in astonishment, his face full of disbelief, "But I clearly remember that Mitra once controlled it to attack Odes...

"I am Mitra."

"What nonsense are you talking about, brother Gnostics! You must be sick and out of your mind!"

With moist and cool slender hands, he caressed the forehead of the young mage.

Joan held her hand and looked directly into her eyes.

"My lord Metatron, I'm sorry for keeping this from you. I'm a Gnostic and a Mitra, but I'm not a real Gnostic or a Mitra... Actually, my real identity is a human being."

As he spoke, he lifted his transformation and returned to his human form.

It was too cumbersome to explain in detail, so Joan simply packaged the ins and outs of his impersonation and sneaked into Odis into a piece of information chain, and directly input it into Metatron's mind through telepathy.

After reading the spiritual message sent by Joan, the spiritual princess was stunned. She still couldn't accept it for a while, but she had to face the reality.

After a while, she managed to calm down, still tightly holding the hand of the human mage opposite, and sincerely said to him: "Dear Gnostic brother, I don't care about your real identity, I don't care about what you have done, It doesn't matter whether you were a human or another species, as long as you decide to become a real mind flayer from now on, you are determined to abandon everything in the past, abandon this world that is about to be destroyed, and accompany me to the beautiful and beautiful place opposite the star gate. And a safe new world, I have nothing else to ask for! Please believe me, my dear, a happy life is waiting for us on the opposite side of the star gate!"

"I'm sorry, Metatron, but I can't accompany you the rest of the journey."

Enduring the tearing pain in her heart, Joan broke free from her hand.

"In your eyes, this world that is about to face doomsday catastrophe is not worth nostalgic, but this is the place where I was born and grew up, and there are relatives, friends and teachers I can't let go of here."

"Just as children are obliged to protect their mothers, I am also responsible for the safety of this world. No matter how beautiful the world across the star gate is, it cannot replace my hometown."

"You persuaded me to give up my human identity and become a real mind flayer. Unfortunately, I couldn't convince myself to accept such a change."

Just as Joan refused to become a real beholder, and refused to take the crown of Udinos from Ishtar as Mitra, now he also refuses Metatron for the same reason, and refuses to give up human beings. As a member of the Mind Flayer.

"After sending you away from Vales Tianyu safely, I will return to human society and continue to spend the rest of my life as a human being, trying to use my own hands to change this world with more suffering and less happiness, more disasters and more disasters, and prevent the coming Winter catastrophe, even if I fail in the end, at least I will die without regret.”

Humans, beholders, and mind flayers, among the three, Joan finally chose humans, who are the most vulnerable in every aspect. Metatron really couldn't understand. Isn't such a choice obviously stupid? ?

"Why do you insist on being human, is it because you were born into this world as a human?"

"If the fate of this life is determined at the moment of birth, what kind of freedom is there in such a life?"

Metatron's sharp question made Joan's heart ache slightly. In fact, this is exactly the question he has been pursuing for many years. Now, he finally has the confidence to give a positive answer.

"Yes, just like you were born as a mind flayer, and I was born as a human being. We can't define what identity we were born with, but we can decide what identity we will live out our lives with."

"If I don't understand the mind flayer at all, and refuse to change just because I am a human being, refusing to accept your invitation is undoubtedly a kind of arrogance based on ignorance."

"However, it is precisely because I have lived in Odys, and I have made a confidant like you, and have a deep understanding of the social, cultural and spiritual world of mind flayers, that the difficult choices I made on this basis are valuable."

"Looking back at the beginning of life, you and I are both unconscious fertilized eggs that were forcibly produced. We cannot decide our own birth, but we can decide whether we want to be human or not, and what kind of human we should be."

"In this sense, human beings are not born of their parents, let alone created by gods. Instead, they paint a complete image of themselves through the countless choices they make in this life."

Why ask where is the Creator?

You are your own creator!

This is how man created man himself.

After figuring this out, Joan felt unprecedentedly relaxed and comfortable.

It seems that until this moment, as a human being, he was completely separated from the mother's body and was truly born in the world.

Metatron listened to him quietly, the grief and indignation in his eyes gradually faded, and transformed into a kind of tenderness that was almost compassionate. He said nothing more, hugged and kissed him for the last time, turned around and returned to the cockpit of the spaceship, and focused on manipulating the steering wheel , driving this heavily damaged conch shell ship that may disintegrate at any time, rushing towards the star gate.

Joan left "Ark V" alone, suspended under the silver-gray starry sky that seemed to be condensed with countless tears, watching Metatron's spaceship rush into the star gate, and finally disappeared in the gorgeous light leading to the new world.

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