Chapter 479 I Was a Human Being

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"……Dream?"

Colin muttered.

Although Colin Iliad and Lovia didn't quite understand the meaning of "Dark Angel" Saslier's words, they were still affected by the gloomy, fearful and creepy words contained in the words, resulting in a cold and biting feeling. , a hallucination of physical and mental trembling.

He still didn't dare to look up and look directly into the golden eyes of the God of Gods like Klein did. He looked at his toes and repeated in a whisper:

"Just...a dream?"

There are only a few chapters in the general textbook but the magnificent history, the eternally bright kingdom of heaven on earth before darkness falls, the epic poem surrounded by countless angels and the eight kings of angels, is just a dream of the God in front of him when he is sleeping. ?

So what are we?

Your dream is over, and who are we, your true believers who have struggled in the darkness for more than a thousand years and killed one family member after another to survive? A by-product of a dream, a remnant of an old time that you don’t want to acknowledge?

Colin couldn't find the answer for a while. He felt that this situation seemed to be similar to "the Lord is dead" in terms of despair, but it was more complicated than the former and made people unable to calm down. But if he was asked to choose one, he would rather choose the Lord to die than the Lord to wake up and not recognize them as believers - even if they are indeed insignificant to the gods, as insignificant as gravel, as insignificant as dust. Eye-catching.

"How could that be a dream?"

Lovia scratched her face with both hands. In front of the supreme leader of this path, she had used up most of her strength and dignity not to worship him, but at this moment she succumbed to the huge blow. Wearing a purple dress, she knelt in her shadow and scratched the bloody flesh from her face with her fingers.

"Merciful Lord, the Lord behind the shadow curtain, your holy words have guided me in the direction of progress. You have responded to me more than once, to your small and pathetic believers! How can such true kindness and tolerance be Are you talking in your sleep?"

"You are real, you are the real Creator, how can you be a dream? Lord! Lord -!"

Her low and hoarse voice echoed in the presence of the gods, and the shadows surrounding her gradually showed signs of collapse. But God just looked at the devout shepherd and the silver knight who once believed in the sun god quietly, without much change in his expression.

"...Why do you think it was a dream?"

Klein felt inexplicably angry at God's attitude. He twitched the corners of his lips and laughed twice. There was no sadness or joy in his voice:

"If you admit His existence, why do you use dreams to refer to it? If you don't admit that it is a part of you, why do you treat me and them with the same attitude as in dreams?"

The brass eyes on the shadow curtain were silent for a few seconds, and said in an ethereal voice:

"I do not deny Him..."

"It's just that he insisted in his dream that he was a human being. I can't agree with this wrong idea."

"This is the basis for maintaining the dream, and it is also a blasphemy against the Lord God."

Just for this reason?

Klein was surprised for a moment, then covered his mouth and let out an uncontrollable gasping laugh that made his shoulders tremble slightly.

Yes, why can't it be this reason?

If human beings forget who they are, become obsessed with the power gained from magic potions, forget their original weakness and powerlessness, and think that they are naturally powerful mythical creatures, then they will lose control and become crazy. In this case, by the same token, how could a naturally powerful spirit, the God of Gods, the Almighty Lord, the Great God, think of himself as a weak, fallible mortal?

This is the greatest blasphemy against the Almighty.

But this blasphemy actually came from Himself—His memory betrayed Him, causing Him to fall into human form in those short few thousand years.

These were the only traces he left on His soul.

Looks great, doesn't it?

To the Creator, a tiny human being who is not even as good as an ant or a stone has left such a blasphemous paradox in the self and consciousness of the eternal and almighty God. It is simply heart-warming - but his life and his belief , his thoughts, everything that was once noble and great when he was born as a human being, everything that led an era to glory when he was a god, now put it all into a blender and grind it to pieces, and in the end it is just in the hands of the Almighty Lord. There was a light brush on the body.

He made Him agree to choose mankind as the new Familiar;

He gave Him a tiny fondness for the world.

Is it worth it?

Is it worth it?

Klein felt that all of this was so absurd that he could not speak, and he did not even want to laugh. The meaning and value of life had once again been trampled under the feet of the world itself. Even though he knew rationally that this was the limit of ants, his emotions still remained. Unable to recognize.

Gehrman Sparrow's question and God's answer made Colin Iliad and Lovia a little confused, but they still understood the general meaning and couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness and confusion.

The curtain of shadows covering the walls, pillars, and floor tiles shook. Those brass eyes stared at Klein and said:

"Sun God is just my original honorific name, and so is the original Creator. You should now call me the Lord who created everything, the omniscient and omnipotent God, or, respectfully, call me 'God'."

"...It can be seen that you are something beyond the scope of my understanding."

Klein finally laughed, and then felt scared because he was mocking the vice-lord of heaven, even one of the most powerful gods. The most important thing is that this guy's way of thinking is completely different from that of humans. Even if he is mentally abnormal, he feels that he can't have a conversation with him.

In order not to give the other party time to be angry, he quickly raised a question:

"So, why did you betray yourself, build a Redemption Rose with the 'Night Goddess' and the others, and assassinate yourself?"

The brass eyes fell into silence again, and the shadows covering various places like curtains swayed gently without stopping.

After several seconds, the ethereal and illusory voice slowly said:

"...Because I woke up, before that."

After hearing this answer, Klein's pupils suddenly enlarged, and he felt an inexplicable feeling of hair standing on his back and a chill on his back.

This was very close to one of his guesses, but even more terrifying.

At this time, the shadows in all directions became thicker, more sinister, and more gloomy, as if they were gestating some kind of terrible, unknown, and irresistible danger.

God took the trouble to explain again:

“Because He considers himself human, contrary to my existence;

"So, when he was awakening, He chose to use death to delay the awakening of his Self."

This sentence echoed layer by layer and did not subside for a long time.

Klein blinked: "...What about now?"

"Well, you don't need to answer. I guess you will say, 'He finally realized his lost ways and chose to wake up from his dream.'"

God looked at him calmly and did not deny the answer.

After a while, Klein finally asked:

"Okay, okay, I kind of know what you are."

"By the way, I just heard you call yourself 'Original'?"

"'Original' refers to the one who created this world and transformed into all things?"

As he spoke, Klein took a few steps back, released the historical projection of the "Poseidon Scepter", and retreated under the steps.

Frankly speaking, Klein subconsciously wanted to ask if she was the "Original Witch", but as soon as he thought about it, he ruled out this answer. This was because the "Original Witch" did not have the personality to make the ancient Sun God and the Creator of Silver City so fearful. , even the "Night Goddess" can't do it. The second is that after the "Dark Angel" fell into sleep and was affected by the second "blasphemous tablet" in the fourth era, this evil god was born. It is unlikely that God is familiar with him, and even through "Omniscient" can have some understanding, and will not specifically mention Sequence 0, which did not participate in the history of the Third Age.

Behind the increasingly thick and forbidding shadows, the brass eyes flickered at the same time, and God's tone seemed to be talking about the weather:

"universe."

What's the meaning? Hearing that disembodied voice, Klein was a little puzzled for a moment, feeling that the other party's answer was wrong.

But soon, he roughly understood what the other party meant:

The "original creator", God, created not this world, but the entire universe!

Between heaven and earth is the universe, and endless time is the universe. The universe that philosophy refers to is the collective name for all space, time, matter, etc. and all the things they produce. In philosophy, it is also called the world. But why did He answer this way?

Are this universe and this world two concepts?

He also includes "time and space" in his creation, so why does the Lord of Mysteries have "Lord of Time and Space" in his honorary name?

…So, “original” actually does not refer to the original Creator…but to God Himself? Putting the authority of the Lord of Mysteries and God together, who is the original Creator who can truly create the universe? If they can be integrated with each other, it means that these are also adjacent paths? But the five paths of omniscience and omnipotence and the three paths of mystery are not adjacent at all...

Klein turned sideways and glanced at Colin Iliad, Medici, and Lovia, and found that the two demigods had doubts and confusion on their faces. They were frowning slightly and thinking about the conversation just now.

From the moment they met God, everything that happened impacted their existing concepts.

Medici in the corner seemed to have stopped listening to God. He leaned against the wall with his arms folded and dozed off in a big way.

Klein suspected that He knew the answer, but didn't tell him.

In the history of Silver City, the ancient sun god, the creator, is equated with the original creator. He was the supreme being who woke up from his sleep for many years after creating the world and took back the authority of the ancient god.

In the later missionary work in Intis after capturing the "Sun", the True Creator also used this statement. All of a sudden, the other gods were either beaten into rebels or traitors, or into subordinate gods. Anyway, except for the Creator, everyone was an inferior god.

Of course, this is not wrong in a certain sense, but the way the original Creator "awakened" was different from what the residents of Silver City imagined.

The universe... Klein thought for a while and said:

"Because He has mastered the 'Sea of ​​Chaos', you woke up?"

God's answer was very detailed. Although there were also the enigmatic and riddle men that are common among gods, Klein had basically understood them all - this was different from his own speculation. He had always thought that the awakening of ancient consciousness was the same as The erosion of divinity is also slow, gradually correcting you over a long period of time, covering you with another person's will, making you a new carrier of the ancient existence.

But people cannot survive the "long time" in the first place.

As an extraordinary person whose basic concept is still that of an ordinary person, Klein feels that the concepts of himself twenty years ago are different from those of himself now. Even yesterday, he planned to be an ordinary person, but today he decided to inherit the will. Things that pursue strength. Isn't it normal for the self a thousand years from now to be completely different from the self now?

In this thousand years, if he uses the honorable name of "Lord of Mysteries" and uses the power of "Lord of Mysteries", then he will indeed become the Lord of Mysteries. It would not be surprising that his personality and style are getting closer and closer.

So he felt that this answer was acceptable.

However, according to God, it seems that He suddenly woke up in the body of the sun god?

Then when will I, who has a certain degree of control over Source Castle, experience the sudden awakening of the "Lord of Mysteries" in my body?

Those brass-colored eyes stared at Klein for several seconds before saying:

"It's not just that. The higher the sequence, the closer to the original. And you are also one of the entities closest to Him."

Sure enough... So, it is possible for the King of Angels and Sequence 0 in every path to awaken the original Creator? Klein tensed up and his heart sank.

He immediately thought of another thing:

The higher the sequence, the easier it is to be contaminated by things underground!

Combined with the fact that the "Sea of ​​Chaos" is located underground, can it be concluded that the higher the sequence, the easier it is to be affected by the "Sea of ​​Chaos", causing the original Creator to awaken in the body? What Angelweed, the "Dragon of Fantasy" feared, was sealed in "Grossell's Travels", and what was sealed in the "Miracle City" Livishdri was not the underground pollution he encountered, but a point of awakening. First will? Of course, this is the most powerful and terrifying pollution... And the root of all this is that the source of all or most of the extraordinary characteristics is the original Creator and is a part of His body? Klein thought of possibilities and made guesses.

It turns out that everything comes from the original Creator, so "God" and "Mystery" can also be adjacent paths!

Omniscient, omnipotent and the authority of time and space, as well as the gods of other ways, everything belongs to the original one!

At this moment, Klein understood this sentence deeply from another perspective.

Phew... He breathed out secretly and sighed in his heart:

"Extraordinary characteristics are both a gift and a curse..."

After gathering his thoughts, he smiled and said:

“Are these things tainted by mere knowledge?”

"No." Those brass eyes looked at Colin Iliad and others, "It just means that the possibility of awakening the 'original' in your bodies is higher."

"But you shouldn't have to worry about that."

Klein suddenly became curious:

"In your eyes, what am I now?"

"Extraordinary beings contaminated with the aura of Origin Castle? A group of human-shaped bugs? Extraordinary characteristics of walking? Or other ants or dust?"

God probably smiled a little:

"An enemy who is still sleeping in the human body."

Klein was horrified when he heard this. The temperature in the entire hall seemed to have suddenly dropped by ten degrees. The cold light fell on him and others. The brightness at noon created the chill of late winter night.

"so what?"

Klein unexpectedly found that he didn't feel much fear now. Thanks to his emotional control, as long as he spoke fast enough, he wouldn't even feel "fear". He looked at his own shadow at God's feet and smiled exaggeratedly:

"An elder I know well was once an angel. He lost his memory for an era after being glared at by the true god. And for a god as powerful as you, you don't even need to look at me if you want to kill me now. Why do you want to tell me that? How long will it take to tell me so many things?"

For some reason, Klein suddenly wanted to pick up a monocle and put it on his right eye. His hands were itching unbearably, and he longed to commit such a shame, but he resisted and held his hand down forcefully. Klein felt that he couldn't be so arrogant and let this act become the last act of his life.

But I can’t hold my tongue so easily:

"Should I be grateful for your generosity, or should I feel-"

"Torturing a weakling who is not yet your enemy makes you feel good, noble God?"

The corners of God's mouth seemed to be slightly raised again. He probably liked the drama of this little life struggling hard, saying all kinds of words, and doing all kinds of actions to attract his attention.

And when this little intellectual life form is the holder of a mysterious destiny, this is a comedy that is rare in thousands of years.

God felt that he had won too much, and he was very tolerant of Klein and the three living beings at his feet who once believed in Him:

"You brought me many surprises."

Klein shook his head a few times, restraining his "clown" instinct and not giving God a lively impromptu curtain call.

"The Eastern Continent is my parish, and they were all my believers."

"I can let them return to heaven, recreate the mythical paradise of mankind, the most perfect Eden in imagination."

God's eyes swept across Colin Iliad and Lovia, and finally came to Medici, who was hunched over his neck and not looking at Him.

"But the price is that you have to stay and promote my glory in my heaven, and you also have to go to the world to sing the ordinary joys you love; and the war angels also have to stay, and heaven is where they belong. All great power should be It belongs to me, and the just war will always be led by me."

His word is unquestionable.

Ordinary joy?

Klein was stunned and immediately thought of the "perfect world" and "God's sheepfold" that Edward Vaughn once showed him. It is undeniable that the material wealth there has already reached the level with the blessing of extraordinary power. The richness is unimaginable. Human beings do not need to work. They only need to worship and revere the gods, and then they can spend their lives casually and easily according to their own preferences.

It was calm and peaceful, everyone praised God, everyone loved the Lord, and loved others as much as he loved the Lord. There was no fear or sadness.

God speaks the only voice and all creation bows down.

No one, no, I am afraid only very few people can resist such a world, which is the embodiment of the imagination of heaven by intellectual beings.

He knows that I care about ordinary people, so he lets me see the happiness of ordinary people?

Klein thought for a while, gave up the in-depth discussion with God on the topic of "happiness", raised the corners of his mouth, and asked:

"Then the people of Silver City and Moon City cannot leave here, and the Northern Continent, Eastern Continent and Western Continent will eventually believe in you."

God replied: "It must be so."

"This is a world without choices... Also, if you invest in your world, you can gain everything except yourself, but in this world, who can keep yourself? How many copper pennies can you exchange for yourself? Can you give it to the people in the East End? , Can you give the people in the Eastern Continent a meal to fill their stomachs?"

Klein shook his head, his tone exaggerated.

He looked at Colin and Lovia, and then turned away without waiting for them to express their stance.

"Praise be to you, God."

Klein couldn't help but make a final call:

"As a human being who has suffered from all the difficulties in life, I would like to thank you for creating a paradise for mankind that reaches the limits of imagination."

Boom!

Silver-white electric snakes jumped out one after another, carrying a strong aura of destruction, and densely slashed at the first "blasphemous stone slab".

This is the "Lightning Storm" from the "Poseidon Scepter"!

"But I will be the Serpent of Eden!"

In the blazing lightning storm, with a crazy smile on his lips, Klein suddenly flashed to the other side of the hall. He aimed at the "blasphemous slate" hidden behind God's Seat. This event had never been so grand. The Lightning Jungle traps you and your escaping shadow in it, and there is a possibility that they will die together if they don't take you back!

"I will constantly and constantly tempt the humans in Eden, tempting them with freedom, pain, the unknown tomorrow, and good and evil beyond your definition, tempting them to leave Eden and embark on a journey full of suffering and suffering. The hidden path to 'self' is happiness and freedom."

At this point, Klein's voice suddenly became weak and was drowned in the rumbling thunder.

The moment lightning fell on himself and the shadow at the same time, his expression suddenly became peaceful.

"I can't give them much, only myself! But I want them to have freedom, the freedom to make their own choices."

"Even if their choice is to return to Eden."

TBC

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