Li Ke was very good at lying, especially when he was acting as a person who felt sorry for himself. He tried his best to convince himself that he was a coward and looked up at the bright sky.
He wanted to see the true faces of the gods. When he was silent and did nothing, the gods would expose their true intentions to him for the sake of their own goals.
This was a common problem of those who were in charge of everything behind the scenes. They thought that they were in control of the fate of the chess pieces in their hands and were happy to see the chess pieces move around under their control and be active according to their own ideas.
But once the chess pieces did something beyond their expectations, they would be very angry, very angry, and an angry person would not be able to hide everything.
Their true faces would be exposed naked in front of him because of their anger and because he, the chess piece, was not willing to move according to their script.
Li Ke did not believe that the gods did not know what the two dragon girls were thinking, but they did not care. They were confident that even if he received the blessings of the stars, he could still easily get rid of them.
The dragon girls believed in the Dragon King's choice. They believed that the person he chose would not be wrong and would go according to the script they wanted.
Everyone seemed to be sure that he would look for Yatoku and go back to take revenge on him. Even Yatoku himself thought so, as if his life would not be complete if he did not kill Yatoku.
The beginning of the plan would start from the battle between him and Yatoku, and the end of these plans would also end when the battle between him and Yatoku ended.
He was not clear about their plans, but he knew that they all wanted Yatoku to die.
And he …
If the Dragon King's plan succeeded, he might die, but if he survived, he did not know what he would lose.
If the gods' plan succeeded, he might live, but it might be easier to die.
Moreover, he didn't think that he wasn't in any danger. He even had a hard time fighting against the two dragons. This was the most dangerous event in the world. No one would believe that he wasn't in any danger at all.
And to be honest, he did not want to believe in anyone, whether it was the Dragon King or the gods.
The fact that the Dragon King had claimed him as his son was enough to make him want to minimize his impression of him. What's more, he was implying that the Dragon King was sacrificing others. He did not know why the Dragon King was controlled and what difficulties he had, but he did not agree with this way of sacrificing others so that any planet could win.
Li Ke did not want to know the goals of the gods, but based on what he saw, no matter how noble their reasons and goals were, he could not agree with their ideas and actions. The gods had no intention of letting him live, or else they wouldn't have had such an attitude until now.
And even if Li Ke could survive in the hands of the gods, he would most likely have to give up his dignity.
Treat them, bribe them, lock them up and treat them like dogs. There were only a few ways to survive. Using this method to survive, Li Ke felt that he might as well die. Treating them to a meal was equivalent to sleeping with them, which meant that his status was slightly higher. Bribing him to join their forces and become a member of their group of vested interests.
Keeping him as a dog was even simpler. He would become their most loyal dog and replace the Dragon King or someone else to become a tool for them to enslave all the worlds.
After all, even the Dragon King favored him and thought that he was his son, so there should be something special about him. If he really wanted to be a loyal dog, they would probably be willing to let him be a good dog.
Therefore, Li Ke did not choose any path. He wanted to walk his own path. He wanted to figure out the entire plan of these two groups of people, know their respective trump cards, and then solve the problem.
His idea was simple. Since the gods threatened the Dragon King and the universe with the Dragon King's chain, then he would kill all the gods and let the Dragon King regain his freedom. And he also wanted to prevent the Dragon King from destroying the Runic Land to vent his anger after he escaped. Therefore, while killing the gods, he also wanted to get the Dragon King's chain in his hands, understand what it was, and try to give the Dragon King an order. However, he could not destroy this world.
At the very least, before the intelligent life of this world left, he could not destroy this world.
In this way, he had to understand all the plans of both sides. Knowing less would be a fatal problem. If he wanted them to expose their plans, he could only play dumb. However, the problem was that he could no longer play house during this period of time. The matters of the mortal world should no longer bother him.
"Ionia."
This name once again appeared in Li Ke's memory. There were other henchmen of Yatoku in this land. He just had to pretend to suppress them and then find the information that Yatoku might have left behind.
Yes, Li Ke had this feeling. Yatoku must have left something for him in Ionia. This feeling was very strange. Although there was no reason, he just knew that Yatoku would definitely leave behind the truth of what he saw.
Although this did not prevent the two of them from being enemies, in the face of an even greater enemy, it was not impossible for them to cooperate.
"So, what is Yatoku thinking? His enemy … "
Li Ke frowned. At the same time, Yatoku, who existed and did not exist on the battlefield of the gods, suddenly spoke.
"My enemy is myself."
He stretched out his hand and looked at his golden palm that was no different from the past. He felt the torment brought to him by conscience and glory in his body. He wanted to go back in time to kill himself and govern the land of Shurima well. He wanted to stop immersing himself in the sacrifice of Sertakar, to recover himself from the erosion of the Void, to kill those with ulterior motives, so that humans could ask for help from the gods who had schemed against them.
But he couldn't do it because it was too late. Regardless of whether he corrected his mistakes or traveled through time to correct them, the sins he had committed wouldn't disappear because of this. They would exist forever, in history and in their memories.
Perhaps one day, their legends would disappear with the yellow sand of Shurima. But the sand buried deep in the earth, every breeze of Shurima would tell how terrible a group of monsters there were in this land. They were ascended warriors who protected humans. They gained power and status because of the gift of the gods, but because of their own personality problems, they became monsters and slaughtered the world.
In the end, they were sealed and destroyed by the gods with the efforts of the mortals and the help of the gods.
People would always remember those gods. They would always be grateful for the power of the gods and forever pursue the so-called ascension.
Stuffing the soul of a heavenly being into a mortal's body, making him lose his emotions, his outlook on life, his previous standards of measuring value, and his perception of the world?
Was this ascension?
This was a slaughter, a noble slaughter.
He was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered as he climbed up the mountain. He placed his resplendent determination, his resplendent dreams on external objects. He placed his hopes on the Heavenly Deities who were picking lambs like butchers. He did his best to display his physical body so that the Heavenly Deities would choose him.
With a noble heart, they piously sought the help of the gods to climb the mountain that was almost impossible to climb because as long as they climbed up, they would be able to get the help and power of the gods. They could also become heroes in their eyes. With great power, they could also do what they wanted to do.
Perhaps the gods wouldn't put them on the dining table and eat them like real lambs, but would the people who had ascended really be the same person? Just like the angel sisters, they had not experienced hardships and had not gone through the process of training to gain strength. They were born with everything that others could not even dream of.
They thought that they were the saviors of the world, but they had completely forgotten that other than the gift from the gods, they were just two little girls.
Arrogant fellows were like maggots crawling on corpses. They flaunted the power that was bestowed upon them after someone killed their mother. They felt that they were born to be superior to others and were not even worthy of being maggots.
"There are idiots who flaunt the power that their mothers exchanged for. There are idiots who take the power given to them by others and feel that their mission is noble. There are also fools who use their own power but feel that they are not worthy. This world is still so wonderful. "
When he said this, he turned his head and saw a god with the head of an eagle and a scepter in his hand.
"Finally, there are idiots like us who are used as test subjects but are proud of ourselves and treat it as the cornerstone of our country. Don't you think so? Azir. "
The person who came was Azir, but he did not exist in this space. He only used the power of the sun disk to find Yatokus, who had ascended under the sun disk, and wanted to know what they wanted to do.
"Our Ascension Empire isn't stupid. Those who are constantly ascending for this country, sacrificing themselves and fighting for the sake of making every citizen a god-like existence one day, aren't idiots. They used their hands and feet to measure our land and build our civilization. They did not have the power of the gods, but they were willing to make every citizen of the Empire a god. "
Azir's voice was full of nostalgia, because this was the real way of Shurima's ascension. For Shurima and for all the people in this land, although some of them died as mortals, any one of them was nobler than any god. They were the real Ascended Ones of Shurima.
It was just that these people who used the ceremony to ascend were too dazzling. They were excellent people who were willing to give everything for more people, so when they became Ascended and gained more power and ability, their god-like ability completely attracted everyone's attention.
No, perhaps it was wrong from the beginning. They only saw the light of the Ascended Ones, but the light of the 'Ascended Ones' that silently emitted their own light under the Ascended Ones was faintly forgotten by them.
"So the Ascended Ones of Shurima are not stupid. The ones who are stupid are us, the successors, and those who have taken the wrong path. Shurima will exist forever, and so will the Ascended Ones. However, it definitely shouldn't be this distorted immortal … Our most noble appearance is our most ordinary appearance, not this distorted and powerful body. "
Azir looked at his hands that were brimming with power, but in his heart, he missed the weak and powerless hands of a human. At that time, he had a happy family, but it was his arrogance and blind pursuit of the power of ascenders that caused the entire Empire to fall apart, causing the light of ascenders in Shurima to be cut off because of him.
Of course, he could rebuild this glory, but if it was still the Ascended Ones who did, then their people would still unhesitatingly pursue the fate of the fallen Shurima.
The sun that had set should not rise again, because it had already fallen. A new sun should rise, and in that sun, there was no need for the figure of God.
Because the new Shurima would eventually become an existence that stood side by side with gods, the new Shurima's people did not need to worship gods, because they were gods themselves!
They were the people of Shurima! They were the Ascended Ones, the gods!
"The sun disk must be destroyed, but I think you will need it to be destroyed when necessary, so I will give this to you. When you crush it, we will activate the ritual, and the light of Shurima will disappear completely."
He handed an eagle-shaped token to Yatoku, and Yatoku took it. But when he saw the token that belonged to the Shurima Royal Family that he had not seen for a long time, the corner of Yatoku's mouth couldn't help but curl into a mocking smile.
"A royal token? Do you need me to salute you? Your Majesty? "
Azir was expressionless. He didn't care about this kind of mockery at all. He didn't even care about his identity as the Emperor anymore. He just wanted to quickly end Shurima's humiliating history, so that the new Shurima could be born smoothly, and not continue to be disturbed by the gods and become their pawns.
"As you wish."
There was only so much he could do. His power had always been insufficient, whether it was when he was the Emperor, or now that he had ascended, what he could do was always not enough, and he could only do some insignificant things that he had always neglected.
Therefore, he could only put his hopes in the future, and hope that the people of the future would be able to walk the path of ascension.
He firmly believed in this future, because the Shurima people were never fools. Yatoku and the other Emperors were not fools, and even Zerath was not fools.
Only he was.
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