Chapter 220: Fuck the Truth of This World
“And that woman, Loseweisse…”
“She didn’t participate in the killing of the thirty-seven Heroes from other worlds, but why does she make me feel more terrified than the other nine members of the Hero Squad, whose hands are stained with blood? Just seeing her makes me tremble.”
“Did Jie Luo the Second also sense something?”
The information ended there.
New information, new questions.
Jie Luo the Second had been faithfully carrying out the Evil God’s mission.
He hunted Fate, he hunted Heroes.
That was the strange part.
The records of the Heavenly Continent clearly stated that the Hero summoning ritual had only been performed twice: the first time summoning Jie Luo the Second, and the second time summoning Qin Chu.
But according to the First Jie Luo’s message, the Heavenly Continent had been summoning Heroes continuously, perhaps even one per month. But these newly summoned Heroes were immediately found and killed by Jie Luo the Second.
The members of the Hero Squad, knowing their identities, knowing that they might be the Heroes who could save the Heavenly Continent, still followed Jie Luo’s orders and ruthlessly killed these people, who were likely also transmigrators from Earth.
Even though these people hadn’t done anything wrong, they didn’t even understand what was happening to them, perhaps thinking they were just dreaming, and then they died just like that.
A group of pitiful people.
Qin Chu felt a pang of sorrow.
He took a deep breath, suppressing his emotions, and fell into thought.
Ireta, the Daughter of Death, sensing his contemplation, stood quietly by his side, not disturbing him.
Qin Chu connected everything he had experienced in both playthroughs, combining it with the clues from the soul fragment.
Sage Mountain couldn’t have summoned Heroes so many times in such a short period. They didn’t have that capability.
And the Heroes summoned by Sage Mountain would be directly transported to the city, well-protected in their initial, powerless state.
So, thinking outside the box…
The way the First Jie Luo and he himself were summoned to this world was fundamentally different.
After all, he hadn’t experienced anything like a time tunnel, nor had he heard a mysterious woman’s voice.
For now, he assumed there were two ways to summon Heroes to the Heavenly Continent: one by Sage Mountain, and the other by the goddess. The two methods shouldn’t interfere with each other.
He had been summoned by Sage Mountain.
The First Jie Luo had been summoned by the goddess.
But the First Jie Luo’s summoning had been intercepted by the Evil Gods of the Void, his soul and consciousness erased, his memories inherited, his body modified and possessed.
At the same time, Sage Mountain should also have been summoning a Hero, and the modified Jie Luo the Second was sent there by the Void Evil Gods.
And the First Jie Luo’s soul hadn’t been completely erased. With the Evil Gods’ power, this was almost impossible. He could only deduce that some other force had protected it, shielding it from the Void Evil Gods!
Later, for some reason, it had gradually awakened and left these messages within the soul fragments, hoping to warn those who came after him.
And the most important piece of information was that thirty-seven Heroes had been killed.
These thirty-seven Heroes were likely summoned by the goddess, and Jie Luo the Second’s mission was to hunt them down. But if the Void Evil Gods could intercept the goddess’s summons, why didn’t they intercept all thirty-seven Heroes? Why choose the more troublesome method of using Jie Luo the Second as a tool?
Qin Chu could only speculate that the Void Evil Gods, needing to suppress the goddess in the cage, couldn’t exert their full power and couldn’t intercept all the Heroes… Or perhaps intercepting each one consumed a large amount of energy, so they needed to create a powerful tool, completely obedient to their commands, to eliminate the Heroes for them.
The First Jie Luo clearly didn’t meet their standards, so he was erased.
And it seemed they didn’t have the power to significantly influence or interfere with this world. Otherwise, they could just kill the Heroes directly as soon as they appeared.
They couldn’t even constantly observe this world, only occasionally casting their gaze upon it… After all, he himself had only been noticed by the Evil God after he touched the seven scrolls.
However, judging from Loseweisse’s seven scrolls, the strange threads on Sylph, and the whispers in Karsus’s ears, the Evil Gods’ influence on this world wasn’t limited to just Jie Luo the Second.
The cage in the Void imprisoned the goddess, but it also, in a way, trapped the Evil Gods. They could only influence this world through various methods, such as the seven scrolls, Jie Luo the Second, and so on.
And why were the Void Evil Gods so focused on the Hero?
Even if the Hero was incredibly talented and his strength increased rapidly, becoming the most powerful among humans, he was still just a weakling compared to the Evil Gods of the Void.
Was it really necessary?
Such elaborate arrangements even made Qin Chu feel a sense of unease. He vaguely sensed a hint of… fear… in these arrangements.
As if the Hero truly possessed the power to kill an Evil God.
Why hadn’t Jie Luo the Second let Loseweisse participate in the slaughter of the other Heroes? What was he wary of? Loseweisse possessed the Evil God’s seven scrolls, so her connection to them should be very close, and her relationship with Jie Luo the Second should also be better, right?
Or was Jie Luo the Second inherently rebellious?
That mysterious goddess continuously sending Heroes to the Heavenly Continent, could it be that she was just casting a wide net, hoping to catch a big fish? Or was she trying to deceive the Evil Gods, hiding the true Hero among them?
Either way, this mysterious goddess was more ruthless than he had imagined.
But after Jie Luo’s death, the flow of Heroes had stopped. Otherwise, there would have been news of other transmigrators besides him. Had the Void Evil Gods found a way to intercept them, or had the goddess exhausted her power, perhaps even perished?
Or had she already been found, even killed, by Jie Luo the Second?
Qin Chu shuddered. He hadn’t been modified or had his soul annihilated like the First Jie Luo, but had successfully arrived in this world. He was truly lucky.
He thought about many things.
But the true secrets of this world remained hidden from him. These were just his speculations.
He only had two soul fragments now, the information within too limited.
Even though his mind was more mature now, his self-control stronger, he still couldn’t help but feel a surge of frustration. He gripped his hair, muttering curses under his breath. He didn’t activate his Forced Calm ability. Sometimes, he needed to vent, or the weight of these mysteries would crush him.
“Damn it!”
“Damn it!”
He just wanted revenge, why was he being dragged into all this?
His mood soured.
After all, he was facing those terrifying and mysterious beings.
Qin Chu’s reaction made Ireta a little afraid.
She instinctively shrank back.
Although she was the powerful Daughter of Death, she seemed timid.
After a long while, Qin Chu took a deep breath and raised his head.
His face was tired, but his eyes shone with a newfound resolve.
Damn the truth of this world.
Damn the Void Evil Gods.
Let them come at him with whatever they had. He would face them head-on. When he became strong enough, he would crush them all, scatter their ashes to the wind.
But from now on, he would be more careful, more cautious.
He regained his composure and looked at the Daughter of Death beside him. The clues he had were too few… The goddess’s hint had only been a single word: Witches.
Then, no matter what, it was better to gather the Witches around him as soon as possible, right?
His original next target had been the Flame Witch, but since the Daughter of Death had appeared before him on her own initiative, this was a good thing, wasn’t it?
Or was this…Fate?
Bullshit Fate, he muttered, seemingly influenced by the First Jie Luo.
He adjusted his mood and forced a smile, “Miss Ireta, I apologize for my outburst.”
Ireta shook her head, indicating her understanding.
For the Hero to suddenly receive such shocking news, it was normal for him to be emotionally unstable.
“It’s okay, you’re a good person,” Ireta said softly, “I didn’t pry into your thoughts, but I can sense your soul… It doesn’t belong to this world.”
“This world is not worthy of someone as noble as you.”
Qin Chu smiled wryly. Noble?
Ireta’s praise was a bit much. His actions in this second playthrough weren’t exactly noble.
“When tens of thousands of corpses were burning, you were the only one who grieved for those fallen soldiers. The other nobles, the clerics, they only felt disdain and fear.”
“The words you spoke to those soldiers on the bloody battlefield… I was nearby, I heard everything. ‘Are kings, dukes, generals, and ministers born or made?’ Such powerful words, filled with infinite possibilities.”
“You wanted them to find the courage to seize their own happiness, to change this rotten world, right?”
No, no, I was just stirring up trouble, Qin Chu thought. I just want to watch this world burn, to see rivers of blood.
His shaking head was interpreted by Ireta as modesty, “Hero, modesty is a good quality, but don’t overdo it.”
“You must have realized that this world is rotten to the core, the nobles high and mighty, oppressing and exploiting the other humans.”
“The commoners are like domesticated animals, having lost their pride, silently enduring hardships they shouldn’t have to bear.”
“If these numb souls aren’t awakened, even if you kill all the nobles, they will just be replaced by another group, and this world won’t change.”
“You are so kind… and so wise.”
“You didn’t tell them directly, but you planted a seed. One day, this seed will sprout.”
“You must have considered that only the strength one realizes on their own is the truest strength, so you deliberately arranged it this way, didn’t you?”
“Mr. Qin, I understand everything!”
No, you understand nothing, Qin Chu thought.
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