Chapter 1143: Those Who Love Want Them to Live, Those Who Hate Want Them to Die

On the way to Guiming Palace, Ash and Death Kuang were silent all the way, as if the harmony before was just a show at a masquerade. Now that they take off their masks, they will naturally return to their respective positions.

They are monitors and victims, conspirators and pawns, future minds and past bodies, and maybe kings and mounts.

Ash doesn't know why he wants to have a good relationship with Death Kuang. Maybe it's because Death Kuang cares about Sonia, and he is Sonia's boyfriend. Their shared interests can always bring them closer invisibly; When he stepped into Broken Lake Prison like a duckweed, Death Mania appeared in front of him, dispelling the confusion and loneliness in his heart like the blazing sun.

So even if Death Kuang tells him "We will replace you", Ash still thinks there is still room for maneuver and there is still a possibility for them to get along. This is not because he is arrogant, but because besides seeing the straightforward malice of Death Maniac, he can also feel the faint kindness.

Up to now, Ash also thinks that the death fanatic really cares about Sonia. Although one can also use the conspiracy theory that "the death fanatic just hopes that his future container will develop well", he doesn't like to think like this... In this world, there are always things that are not Reasonable love and unexpected encounters.

But just because her kindness is unabashed, so is her malice.

Because she hates Vichy, and because "Silence of Drizzle" suits Vichy, she ruined this spectacle, not caring about how helpful this spectacle was to Ash and the others, as if she was just waiting to appreciate Ash's anger to please her spiteful spirit. heart.

Ash then realized that although Death Madness seemed to be able to communicate, she was actually the same type of person as Youma and the others. It doesn’t mean how moral they are, but they are all solipsists.

They walked against time, and in their long and endless wanderings, they witnessed the birth and death of worlds, and buried countless glorious civilizations. In their eyes, life was equivalent to foam in the sea, and there was no need to do anything. What, they will perish on their own... All the good things in the world will disappear, and the only thing they can control is themselves.

It sounds very similar to Vichy... maybe it's not that people will become like this if they live for a long time, but it's the only way to live for a long time. For people like them, the only justice they believe in is their own will. In order to follow their own will, they dare to trample on all the laws of the world.

Love desires its life, evil desires its death.

Sword Princess and the others also have this tendency now, but even the most selfish Yin Leng is still entangled in her heart with all the sentient beings who died because of her. Although Vichy is an incorrigible solipsist, Ash can at least restrain her behavior with chains and inject emotions into her soul, imprisoning Vichy in his arms like a cage. He knew that he would never be able to make Vichy reshape his moral values ​​in his lifetime, but at least Vichy began to care about his opinions.

He would become Vichy's second chain.

Even so, Wei Xi still said some violent words that challenged his bottom line from time to time. Ash didn't know whether she meant it or wanted to test him, but as long as she said it, Ash would immediately bully her severely. In the beginning, the education effect was quite good. Wei Xi had the consciousness to be cautious in her words and deeds, but recently she became unscrupulous again. She took the initiative to provoke Ya Xiu with the aura of a ghost prophet. After being bullied, she pitifully begged for mercy, always letting Ya Xiu It feels like there is an extra customized form of interaction between them.

But Death Mania never has any chains. She is an unrestrained devil who can do whatever she wants. Ash didn't want to waste precious hell time, so he chose to remain silent.

Because if he continued to communicate with Death Maniac, it would be difficult for him to guarantee that he would not draw his sword and fight her to the death. Sometimes it's like this, friends who should be old friends at first sight become unrelenting enemies in another time and place.

"We're here." Death Kuang said suddenly.

A hazy light appeared in the deep sea ahead. Ash thought it was the light source from Guiming Palace, but when he quickly passed through it and jumped out of the water with a pop, the moist air rushed towards him.

He raised his head, his sight unobstructed through the deep sea hole six kilometers above, and he could clearly see the upside-down sky outside. They seemed to have arrived at the bottom of a 6,000-meter-deep abyss, but the abyss was not in the mountains, but in the depths of tens of millions of tons of seawater. The walls were waterfalls formed by black seawater... Ashi fell to the ground and stepped carefully. He was sitting on the soft sea mud, as if he was afraid of waking up the sea water standing around him.

This is the only island in the Deep Blue Hell...if it can be called an island if it is not on the sea.

"Guiming Palace is over." Death Kuang said calmly.

Ash raised his head and saw the palace built on the trench in front of him - not so much a palace, but a giant fortress - with only broken walls and ruins remaining, more dilapidated than any palace he had seen along the way.

The Death Maniac once said that the core defensive wonder of Guiming Palace, the "Guiming Sea Current", connects the defensive barrier with the sea. It is said that the deep blue hell will not be broken unless it is exhausted. But now it seems that there is no need to evaporate the sea. It can be solved by isolating the contact between Guiming Palace and the sea water. Compared with evaporating the sea, it is indeed much simpler to create an island in the deep sea with a depth of 6,000 meters.

"It makes no sense to just isolate Guiming Palace from the sea water, because Guiming Palace can also connect to the sea water from the bottom of the sea, but it has still been cracked." Death Kuang pointed at the thick vines in the sea mud and said calmly: "A very large area of ​​vegetation The miracle hollowed out Guiming Palace from below, and the "Guiming Sea Current" completely disconnected it from the sea water, whether it was in heaven or on earth. "

The vines are like tentacles surrounding the palace complex, preventing it from touching the sea mud, and the sea water is like a wall surrounding the palace complex, preventing it from touching a drop of water. This hell fortress, regarded as the "Dark Blue Pearl", has condensed thousands of years of water magic essence of the hell demigods, but it ended up dying of thirst in the deep sea like a salted fish.

It seems that only the design flaws of Guiming Palace have been cracked, but the problem is that it is incredible that it can be cracked - won't the demigods inside resist? According to speculation, most of the demigods in the Deep Blue Hell may be gathered in Guiming Palace. One demigod can change the territory of the earth, and a group of demigods can turn hell upside down.

But they could only watch the fall of Guiming Palace... The fall of Guiming Palace was not the beginning of the war, but the end of the war.

When Ash and Death Kuang approached Guiming Palace, the first thing they saw were the silhouettes of monsters on the wall. Most of them were common virtual creatures such as Shadow Evil Dragon, Fox Lantern Dragon, and Fish-killing Dragon, but there were a few heads. They are guardian spirit creatures such as the Resentful Dragon and the Bronze Dragon. Although it is said to be a silhouette, it is more like the traces left after being burned to death by the sun.

"It seems that they don't want to escape anymore and want to defend Guiming Palace." Death Kuang glanced at it and said: "The celestial wonder of the Eagle-Headed Cat Palace Master is "Wings", which allows the magician to directly draw away the vitality of virtual creatures. The origin is transformed into virtual wings to temporarily strengthen itself. Guiming Palace is the largest refuge for virtual realm creatures. In addition, when everyone retreated to Guiming Palace, there must have been many virtual realm creatures following them. They should all have been beaten to death, leaving only these traces of resentment. "

"They..." Ash's lips moved slightly, but stopped after saying one word.

"When these ethnic groups accept the protection of magicians, they are destined to sacrifice in life and death. They have basically signed a master-slave contract, and it is impossible to resist." The death maniac said: "Otherwise, how could they take the initiative to become the guardians of mortal magicians? Spirit? Don’t you just hope that the magician will be kind to you after entering hell?”

Ash was silent for a moment and asked, "Will something happen to Sword Lady and their guardian spirits?"

The death maniac shook his head: "Their guardian spirits have all undergone transformation and evolution. Other demigods will know at a glance that these guardian spirits are pets with owners, and they will basically bypass them. Anyway, there are so many creatures in the virtual realm, so there is no need to touch other people's pets. , Demigods don’t want to offend anyone.”

The two of them walked into the atrium and saw that the remaining knowledge crystals after the death of demigods were everywhere. Ash roughly estimated that at least twenty demigods died here. Several huge storage pools were temporarily created in the center, containing A lot of source crystals. This is a strategic material that demigods usually need to be careful about, but now it is left here for everyone to use at will. Ash walked over and took a look. Although most of it had been consumed, there were still hundreds of source crystals left.

The deep blue demigods really tried their best to defend the last fortress even if they lost everything. Unfortunately, they did not spend all these resources until their death. Are you unable to escape, or are you reluctant to leave home?

"What happened to them?"

"The Forgotten." Death Maniac paused and added: "Thousands of Forgotten."

"Why?" Ya Xiu put the gems into the refining bottle and took the source crystal into the Soul Heaven, like a mourner gathering the bones. "Why are they attacked by the Forgotten?"

"Ouroboros needs to empty Hell to complete the Devouring."

"I thought it was over the moment the world-devouring serpent ate hell."

Death Kuang was silent for a moment and suddenly asked: "Do you think the virtual realm is conscious?"

Ash glanced at her, "Does the Angel of Origin count as the consciousness of the virtual realm? If it doesn't count, then it doesn't exist."

"The standard answer is no," Death Maniac said: "The Void Realm is just a huge chaotic system. Even if there is occasional preference or disgust, it is just a short-term peak of the chaotic system. Therefore, the Void Realm cannot resist the devouring of Ouroboros, so Like grass, it cannot resist being eaten."

"But the actual situation is that it is conscious. In the area where its consciousness cruises, the world is like a struggling octopus. Even if Ouroboros eats it, it cannot swallow it. Its consciousness must be purified first."

Ya Xiu immediately reacted: "The magician is the consciousness of the virtual realm?"

"I prefer this statement, but viewers are more inclined to say "the magician is a parasite in the virtual world." "Death Maniac said: "In the process of stealing the virtual realm, the magicians naturally established an unimaginable close connection with the virtual realm. The biggest evidence is that the development of magic will directly affect the environmental changes of the virtual realm - the magicians It's like an external brain in the virtual realm, absorbing nutrients from the virtual realm while delivering knowledge to the virtual realm. "

"The virtual realm doesn't care about small parasites, but large parasites above demigods have seriously affected the health of the virtual realm. That's why the chaotic system has evolved a mechanism like disaster to clean up demigods. But it is precisely because of the existence of large parasites , That’s why Ouroboros couldn’t completely swallow up the Six Hells, and the Void Realm still controls this world.”

Ash felt a huge sense of absurdity in his heart - the "Magician" who was the focus of the virtual world and wanted to kill him quickly became the vanguard of the resistance to Ouroboros. Ouroboros is like a cannibal doctor, treating the virtual world while feasting on the healed parts.

He said: "I thought Ouroboros had the ability to directly get rid of all the demigods in hell..."

"Anchovies are the most delicious fish I have ever eaten, but it's a pity that they are very spiny." Death Maniac said calmly: "Are you picking at the bones to eat the fish meat, or are you beating the fish to pieces in order to remove the spines?"

Ash understood immediately. Ouroboros can indeed kill all the demigods in the Six Hells directly, but it can also destroy or severely damage the Six Hells. The Forgotten is the tool it sent to find faults, to remove all the demigod troublemakers who refused to die obediently.

Death Maniac glanced at him, took a deep breath and exhaled a round of smoke rings, and said: "Take out the twenty-sided dice."

Ash was stunned, and rummaged in the warehouse for a while before finding the "Pleasure Prince's Twenty-sided Dice". This prop is used when training operators, even if they are arranged to have fun, they can gain experience in magic. However, after Ash was in Senluo, he no longer interfered with the training plan of Sword Princess and others, and this prop was naturally forgotten in the depths of the warehouse.

Now as soon as he took it out, he saw the points on the dice light up one after another. After a few seconds, all the points on the twenty sides were lit up. At the same time, magician phantoms appeared around him, including the vicissitudes of life of the elf warrior, the indifferent human archer, the crazy two-headed ogre, the desperate orc... The last scene of their lives reappeared in front of Ash, and there happened to be twenty demigods, and they appeared with numbers from one to twenty.

"Roll the dice, and you can get all the magic experience of one of the demigods stored in the dice, up to twenty digits. You can absorb it yourself or share it with others."

She paused and said, "You are the Four Pillars God Touch. If you have a candidate in mind, tell the dice directly, and the dice will probably listen to you."

Ash was startled, and then looked around the magician phantoms around him, and finally focused his sight on the elven magician No. 16. He put the dice to his lips and silently chanted, and threw the dice. The dice bounced in the air a few times until "16" appeared at the top, and the dice suddenly froze.

Ash looked at this scene and suddenly asked, "Can the power of the Four Pillars still interfere with the Six Hells?"

"If you count on them, you might as well count on the Supreme Star to blow up Ouroboros." The Death Maniac looked at the phantom of the Elf Magician being sucked into the dice, dyeing the number "16" into a dark blue, turned his head and snorted coldly, "She is really a soul demigod, you really love her."

Ash used his mind to go deep into the dice, and felt the vast soul knowledge inside. He naturally wouldn't absorb it at this time, so he put away the dice and asked, "Why are you telling me the correct use of the dice now?"

"Because at least twenty dead demigods are needed to use the dice once." Death Maniac folded his hands in front of his chest, "Not enough people died in the Desolate Hell."

"Do you still have a lot of props like dice?"

"Of course, with the burial of civilizations many times, in order to improve the efficiency of bone-sucking, various props will naturally be invented."

"Won't you give it to me?"

"Do you think that everything you draw from "Aurora's Magician's Manual" is our deliberate arrangement?" Death Maniac shook his head: "We will only interfere at critical moments. At other times, you really rely on luck and randomly select from the huge reward pool we prepared for you. Like dice and the refining bottle, you drew them yourself. "

Ash said: "If I draw now-"

"After Ouroboros arrived, the reward pool was closed." Death Maniac shook off the ash: "If each timeline is an isolated island, the reward pool is the treasure hidden in another deserted island. The props you draw by yourself are like fishing treasures with a fishing rod, which will not attract any attention. However, if we forcefully interfere and give them to you, it will leave traces of smuggling. Every smuggling will attract the attention of Ouroboros, so we have been carefully controlling the frequency of smuggling. "

"Now Ouroboros has surrounded your world, just like an isolated island is blocked, and fishing or smuggling is no longer possible. "

Ash nodded and stopped asking. He pushed open the door of Guiming Palace and saw that it was filled with various magic resources, magic seaweed, demon spirit stones, seal pearls... Although most of them are water magic, they can all be turned into attributeless knowledge essences after entering the refining bottle.

The refining bottle can help the prison wing condense, and the twenty-sided dice can extract the magic experience of the demigod. Just these two items can make Ash's training progress rapidly. The Doomsday Five not only have more corpse collection items, but also buried civilizations in many timelines... Even if they rely solely on resource accumulation, they can get infinitely close to the theoretical limit of magicians.

However, the more Ash understands the power of the Doomsday Five, the more difficult it is to imagine the horror of the World Devouring Serpent. Can the stars he has high hopes for really save this world that has been bitten?

Ash sighed inwardly, sorted out his mood, and explained: "I plan to let the four of them share the soul knowledge in the dice equally. It is impossible to be promoted to the Lord of God by the realm of magic alone. It is more in line with their survival needs to strengthen their shortcomings as much as possible."

"Why are you telling me this?" Death Maniac glanced at him, "But Vichy's soul faction is not a shortcoming-"

Ash looked incredible: "Do you want me to only give the soul knowledge to the three sword girls, but not Vichy?"

"You said you want to strengthen the shortcomings."

"Then I will give her my share, okay?" Ash couldn't help but said loudly: "Are you satisfied with this?"

Death Maniac's face turned cold: "Try to use this reason in front of Sonia, see if she is satisfied?"

The two looked at each other for a moment, Ash took a deep breath to suppress the anger in his heart, turned his head and continued to search: "I'm not asking for your advice."

"Then don't talk." Death Maniac relit a cigarette, "Anyway, I'm not interested in listening to your nonsense."

There was only the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the huge palace. The demigods moved most of the accumulation of the Deep Blue Hell to Guiming Palace. Ash just needed to accept it all, like a garbage man picking up garbage in the wasteland. The greatest significance of Soul Heaven to him is its nearly unlimited capacity. He is really a veritable trash can.

"Why haven't the Forgotten Ones appeared yet?" Ashus suddenly muttered to himself.

"It will appear if you wait too long." Death Maniac said casually: "After a while, it might -"

"But can't you take the initiative to summon tens of millions of Forsaken people to besiege me?" Ya Xiu opened a doomed treasure box and said faintly: "Then I have to hand over 25% of my soul again."

Death Kuang was startled and stared at his back with wide eyes.

"Actually, you don't have to go to such trouble. When my exploration time is about to end, just ask for it from me and I will give it to you." Ya Xiu added the doom to the back of his hand and said coldly: "Just think of it as my excuse for my naivety. Pay the price."

Death Kuang was silent for a long time, without replying a word. He just took a puff of cigarette quietly, and half of the cigarette instantly turned into ashes and fell.