Ryan stayed in Theresa's wizard tower for a day. The sorceress took advantage of the winter weather, which was the perfect time for her to study magic. After spending a night with Ryan, she took the initiative to drive him away. Veronica, on the other hand, had a lot of free time, so Wizard Garland simply followed Ryan around. Naturally, she was well-nourished, and her face was flushed.
A few days before the Winter Festival, Laing launched a "Count Visit the Grassroots" activity. As the Chosen One of the Lake Fairies, Laing Macado personally came to Redfish Village to visit the village elders. He walked through the streets and alleys of the village to learn about the serfs' income and their living conditions. After Laing came here, the serfs' lives had changed dramatically. At present, hunger and poverty were gradually leaving the village. Seeing that everyone had extra food at home, the Count praised them again and again.
After that, Earl Ryan went to the village elder's house and gave him his blessings for the holidays. He gave him two fish as a congratulatory gift and asked about the elder's family situation. "Is it convenient for you to enter the city? How's the security? Is the medical fee high? "
Hearing the Count's kind greeting, the elder smiled and said, "It's all because of the Count's leadership. Now, the roads are smooth, security is guaranteed, and life is getting better and better."
After visiting the village elder, the Count and the others went to visit Yves's house. Yves was a disabled veteran who suffered from rheumatism and other diseases. He had no one to take care of him. Hearing the Count's blessing, the veteran was moved to tears and said, "I'm 58 years old this year. I've seen the whole village change. The environment is getting better and better, and life is getting better and better. This is all thanks to the Count's blessing."
"Did you eat well? Did you wear warm clothes? " When Laing opened the old man's iron pot, he found minced meat porridge in the pot. The Count was very happy. Laing kindly said that if there were any difficulties, they should report to the knights. The veterans had sacrificed their lives to fight against evil. They had contributed a lot to the stability, unity, and harmony of Brittany. The kingdom's knights in each village should pay attention to the needs of the veterans and soldiers and let them feel the care of the Lake Fairies and the spirit of chivalry. At the same time, they should strengthen the training of the soldiers. They should sweat more during normal times and bleed less during wartime.
After the visit, the Winter Veil Festival arrived. Suria, as the wife, gathered all of Laing's backyard and held a turkey party. At the party, they discussed how to develop Laing's potential, how to allocate Laing's public time, and who should go first. They reached a consensus on many things.
Laing was forbidden to attend the party, so he did not know what the women talked about. He later learned from Olica, who was a loose liar, that Suria and the others had fought many times. They had signed an agreement. The Lake Fairy had also signed the agreement.
But Laing did not have time to pay attention to the party.
King was there. He had brought the Prophet gene prototype, Luo Jia.
On the day of the Winter Veil Festival, deep in the Chalon Forest, in an underground cave.
Four of King's royal guards were looking around. If anything happened, they would strike back. Angelo sat there with a complicated expression. He looked at King's power, which was channeling Laing's spirit and will. It was purifying his brother. He said, "Father, I thought you would capture Petrabo first. Then, I could use my axe to chop off his stinky face."
The Emperor first looked at Anglo's straw hat before focusing on Luo Jia's transformation. "If we want to capture Petrabo, even if I have to do it myself, we have to be prepared to lose at least three thousand Imperial Guards. And there's only a 50% chance of success."
"That is Petrabo. He spent 10,000 years building the fortress. It is just waiting for someone to attack it. It is a shame no one will go." Angelo shouted. "Even when I was at my craziest, I knew Petrabo and his fortress could not be touched."
"There is no fortress that cannot be broken. There is no trial that cannot be waited for. Luo Jia will pay for what he has done." The raven guard gene prototype, Clarkson, was standing far away. His skin was as white as snow, and his hair was as black as graphite. He did not speak much. He looked at An Gelang and said a few more words. His tone seemed to have something deeper to say, if there was anything.
"If the trial is always late, then it is as good as never coming." Leon purified Luo Jia. The strength of this Demon Ascension Progenitor was indeed not that great, but at least he felt a lot more relaxed than before. As he conducted the energy, he whispered, "At the very least, the trial is ten thousand years late. For many traitors, it will be even later."
Clarkson looked at Laing and said, "The only way to get rid of evil is to destroy all enemies. We have to wipe out their breath. We have to erase their souls and bodies from this world. We have to erase all records of their existence. We have to destroy all records and names of our enemies, as well as the scrolls that contain their stories. Only then will we be victorious."
"Luo Jia did the same," King said. He looked at the Prophet gene prototype, which was lying on the stone floor. His cold face was expressionless. "He grew up on a planet that worshipped an evil god. Aside from faith, he learned nothing else. He was taught that the meaning of life was faith. He did not care about what faith he had. All he cared about was whether or not he was sincere."
"He only needed an object of faith. Before I arrived in his world, the object of his faith was the Evil God. After I arrived in his world, the object of his faith was me. After I discovered this problem and finally stopped it, Luo Jia felt lost. He realized his mistake, but the core of his soul that needed faith did not change. Without the object of his faith, he was like a traveler in the desert, frantically looking for any water source. The thing named Luo Jia was filled with faith. Since he could not believe in me, he went to find a new faith."
"He started to read countless scrolls and scriptures. He was looking for a real god, the truth of the universe, and me. That was how he reached the Eye of Fear. He saw the four gods of chaos. He was so happy that he embraced his new faith. He had lost his goal, so the evil god of chaos gave him one. Luo Jia was like a puppy that saw a frisbee. He did not care what his goal was. He just needed someone to give him one. Chaos gave it to him, and he led the Prophets to pledge their loyalty."
"How sincere he was before is how much he hates now. Am I right? Luo Jia, my son? "
The purification was over. The Prophets' geno prototype, which was bald and covered in ancient spells, looked as if he had lost everything. His heart was dead as he said, "You can even turn me, who was willing to embrace chaos, back to how I was before. Father, great God-King, you used your power to take everything away from me. I finally found my home, and you cruelly took away my faith. Even so, you still do not want to admit that you are a god?"
"How much longer are you going to hold onto that lie?" Hearing Luo Jia's words, the Emperor's expression changed slightly. The displeasure of the Lord of Humans was expressed through his tone. "I don't want to debate this with you anymore because it's meaningless. Ten thousand years have passed and the mistake has been made. Humans are almost doomed."
"Because of this, humans need faith. Humans exist for faith. Father, you and your Empire are a pile of junk. The only thing that keeps your Empire going is the faith I gave you. " Luo Jia kept pushing. The Prophets' geno prototype looked crazy. It was so sincere that it did not have a sense of self. It looked at his father, his creator. "The end of the Age of Betrayal has proven everything. There are two things. One, humans need faith. Two, you are a god."
"… I will change this." The king was silent. He then said, "Use my way."
"Your way? Yes, your way. Because no one can oppose you, no one can fight you. Who can stop you? The courts? Terra High Leader's Council? Or the Empire's religion? No, they couldn't stop you. They ruled your empire in the name of the Divine Emperor. Now that you've returned, they've shot themselves in the foot. And you, you've finally become the person you hated the most. " Luo Jia spoke like a kind priest, but his words were like sharp swords. "Look, it is a feast. Chaos, dead spirits, green skin, bugs, they are enjoying a feast on the rotten corpses of your Empire. If it was not for your return that lit the fire of hope, the Empire would have been doomed. Even so, do you still think you are not a god?"
"I am not a god, Luo Jia. This is the last time I am going to talk about this." The Emperor remained cold and calm. "Stop your self-righteous judgment and self-righteous knowledge. Isolating yourself from the Chaos and embarking on the path of evolution and enlightenment is the ultimate direction of human evolution. I am not God, and I will never be."
Laing, Angelo, and Clarkson, the three geno prototypes, each sat on a bench. They drank Dwarf Bagman beer and listened to the king and Luo Jia talk.
"Brother, do you want some sausages?" Laing brought out a plate.
"Give me some. Oh, I like black pepper." Angelo nodded.
"Clarkson, brother?"
"Honey-flavored."
"Here, this is good raw honey."
The three original incarnations of the Gray Knight sat together and began to eat and drink. Compared to people like Kirman who liked to think all day long, Angelo and Clarkson were not the type to dwell on such matters. As for Leon, the Emperor was his father, and that was all. He did not care whether the Emperor was a God or not. As the original Gray Knight, what he needed to do was to fight against evil in the name of the Emperor.
On the other side, Luo Jia and the king's debate continued.
"So, you think the truth of your Empire can defeat chaos? Do you think the truth of chaos is that simple? Chaos comes from the subspace, and the subspace is the sum of all the feelings of all the creatures in the universe. The more you fight against it, the more you realize that you are actually fighting against yourself. Why do I embrace Chaos? Because Chaos cannot be destroyed. Do you know that you and your empire almost caused the birth of the Fifth God of Chaos? " Luo Jia's expression was complicated. On one hand, he felt empty after waking up. On the other hand, he felt hopeless. "What is the nature of a god? It is the sum of all the creatures' consciousnesses. In the end, it becomes self-consciousness. You, father, your projection in subspace is a carrier strengthened by the beliefs of all the creatures. You can deny it, but some things have changed in the ten thousand years you have been sitting on the golden throne. I fell because I accepted that you are not a god. After decades of research, I discovered that it was the opposite of what you told me. "
"You are a god, my father. The god I believe in told me he is not a god, but I found out he is. It is so contradictory. It is so disjointed. You have torn me in half. You have made me crazy. You have overthrown everything I believe in with one sentence! "
"Do you know how painful it is to force a person to repeatedly deny his or her beliefs?! But you have done it to me twice! You forced a person who had believed in God since childhood to believe in you! Then you forced your most loyal believer to give up his beliefs! I was forced to kneel in front of you and admit my mistake. " At the end of his speech, Luo Jia's expression was almost crazy. He screamed at the top of his lungs, "After I was forced to accept that you were not God, I found out through countless signs that you were indeed God. But I had already accepted that you were not God. I almost went crazy! I am not your toy. Instead of continuing to endure your lies, I would rather embrace chaos. At least they are willing to accept faith! "
"So, I admit that some of my methods in the era of the Great Expedition were wrong. I thought that the spread of truth in the Empire would keep human beings away from corruption, but I did not realize that forcing it would be counterproductive because it could not provide spiritual comfort. Compared to educating human beings with reason and science, religious fanaticism could more easily unite the masses." The Emperor nodded to show that he agreed with Luo Jia's point of view. "We need some changes, some subtle changes."
"I am glad that we can reach an agreement, father. If you had realized this problem earlier, I would not have betrayed you." Luo Jia was still angry. He felt empty both physically and mentally. Subconsciously, he tried to grasp at the last straw. "You wouldn't have spent so much effort to capture me and convert me for nothing. Tell me, Father, why are you here? What do you want me to do for you? You need me, right? Right? "
"I need a new Record of the Holy Words, rewritten sentences, more exquisite illustrations, and more enlightening stories. I need someone to help me manage and reform the Orthodoxy," the emperor said to Luo Jia. "You are an important piece of the puzzle in my plan."
"Whew …" Luo Jia heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the Emperor's words. This was what he wanted, to be needed by his god. The thing that supported the thing called Luo Jia was made up of faith and being needed.
"Give me some time to think, father. I do not know which book I want, the Book of Chaos Luo Jia or the Holy Word Record. You want a demon prince, a dark apostle, and a devout believer of chaos to become the geno prototype of your religion? This is the third time you want to destroy my faith. I know that after you convert me, I will not be able to go back to chaos. But I need some time. "Luo Jia painfully scratched his head." You are always so easy. "
"Okay. When I go to Ruthia and come back, you can stay with Laing. Then, we can go back to Tara together." The Emperor closed his eyes and fell into a short silence. His mind seemed to be thinking about something. No one knew what the human leader was thinking.
"Laing." After a short silence, the Emperor turned to Laing and said, "Bring your wife to Angelo's little house in the forest."
"Sulia Kumani Antrel de Winford is the Imperial Consort that I have conferred upon her. I wish to see her."
"Okay."
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