Bree watched the duel between Link and Vrajde in silence, including the dialogue between the two. The silence was too long, and even Bard, who had always been quite patient, could not hold back.

"As you expected, he will indeed repair the barrier."

He occupied the apostle's body and temporarily descended to the material world, but Bu Lei did not answer any other way. He stared at a point in the air with a serious expression. Seeing his appearance, Bu Lei could not ask again even if he was confused. It was not until the critical value of God's arrival that Bu Lei retracted his gaze that he didn't know what he was looking at.

"Bad."

"exist."

"Add to order, all Hornheim, including those inequality mages who are not qualified to enter, are strictly prohibited from making any disrespectful acts towards Link, whether verbally or inwardly, I will personally impose the punishment of God."

Bard was shocked. The fourth incarnation was equivalent to the quasi-god. There is no doubt that... Bray was too cautious, right? Besides, the situation of the Son of Nature is different from others. Although he has unparalleled power, he must be cautious in every word and action. If there is a slight mistake, he will lose his qualification. What's more, Link is different from Bray. This power is not owned by himself, but is temporarily loaned out by the pillar. Once he loses his favor...

"Do you want to be the first mage to disobey my orders?"

With a little childish face, he exuded a fearful divine power. Bard knelt down on one knee and swore that he would never violate it, but he just didn't understand why he was so afraid of Link? After all, the mage is different from ordinary people. He knows the method of controlling elements and does not have much heartfelt awe for an outsider who relies entirely on the pillar. Naturally, it is difficult to obey Bryant's orders.

"He's different."

This is different... means?

"I am not referring to the power and authority of the pillar."

Bud was even more confused. Although he did not look down on Link like Claire, he did not put him on the same level as the former great sage's current god Bry.

"In your opinion, what else do you need to reach my current realm besides power?"

Bud couldn't answer.

The final goal of all mages is to transcend the mortal world like thunder and eventually become gods. However, since learning magic from the elves, although there are many people who climbed the ladder, there are very few who end up being gods. This has also become the biggest doubt of the high-level mages who are in the mortal world. What else do you need besides power?

"Please show me."

"Hahaha..." Bree laughed a few times, "This is the difference between you and him."

Bard was surprised and wondered what he said wrongly? Why is there a difference?

"I have only met Link three times so far. When I first met, he was like a country bumpkin who had just entered a big city from the deep mountains, knowing nothing about the world. Goodbye, but at the other end of time, he has grown up, knowing his situation, and knowing his responsibilities. Three views... are everywhere in the Mirror Hall, and what he did may be shocking to you, but it also conforms to his usual style, and only he can do that."

Listening to Bray's lecture, Bud couldn't help but recall the ups and downs of the mirror hall yesterday, only... Bray's evaluation of Link was so high, such a casual person really...

Realizing that he was thinking about something extra, Bud quickly emptied his brain.

In front of the gods, no thought can be concealed, even if his consciousness is just temporarily descending.

"Don't understand? You, everything is good, it's too conservative. If it were Claire, she might have understood what I mean, but she was too extreme and was unwilling to admit it."

"You mean...Link has something that I or something we lack, critical?" Bud obviously understood that Bray wanted to convey some meaning, but there was a law that was invisible and omnipresent monitoring. The more powerful he had, the less he could not do whatever he wanted.

Brey nodded.

Bard breathed suffocated.

Even if a mage who masters the worldly laws and the power of elements knows no more than a mortal. The descending of the ladder is a sign of qualification. As for what he hasn't been to, he knows, but he has gone up and down again...

Thinking of this, Bud's face suddenly changed drastically.

The prejudice against people from other worlds, the arrogance of being a mage, and the suspicion and unknown made him and others forget a well-known fact. Link and Bree before the gods were both quasi-gods, and no matter how unwilling to admit it, they are all facts. After Bree was qualified, he was taken to the ladder by the former magic goddess and never came down again. If Link was really ranked as quasi-gods, then he would have been on the ladder!

Thinking of this, Bud's face suddenly turned pale.

Link has climbed the ladder! When? He can still get down!

"I'm also very strange, so when he reversed the time and space and returned to the past to meet me, he saw some... very interesting clips through the memories he took the initiative to deliver. Yes, he did go up there."

"What!" Bud lost his voice. Link arrived at Edgar after Bree was named God. Why...

"The so-called ladder is just a path to the space where the gods live, and it is named after the appearance of the gods. On the way upwards, the gods will be abandoned and become a pure spiritual body. This is also the biggest trial of the gods. Those who are not strong enough will lose themselves and become wreckage or souls floating in nothingness. Lorelai was eroded by the cause and effect of the pillar of water. She couldn't resolve it and wanted to absorb the power of believers to relieve it. The power of faith of mortals and the power of darkness that even the pillars can corrode is just a drop in the bucket. Even if she continues to swallow the mage who already has the power of the gods, she still fell. It was precisely because of the strangeness of Lorelai, who stayed halfway and did not continue to advance to the kingdom of God to survive."

Bray's story is an inside story that Bard never knew. It turns out that the ladder is not a real ladder, it is just a vague passage, guided by a higher level of gods, or enlightened by oneself. Having qualifications does not mean that one can be conferred a god. Whether those selected people can succeed in the end depends on their own will. The road to the kingdom of God is not a smooth road. The loser will be deceived and seduced other candidates, and only by breaking through many tests can one be conferred a god.

"Fate is invisible and intangible. It is like a big tree, divided into different forks and a spider web. After experiencing many branches, it finally reaches a point."

Bard opened his mouth, wondering if he should show that he did not understand this obscure metaphor.

Bu Lei reached out and drew a few strokes in the air. The faint fluorescence showed a simple figure with several forks. He clicked on the center one, and a fluorescent ball of light was immediately marked on the thin line.

"This is the Link you and I know." Then, he clicked another fork in the back: "This is the timeline he was sent to the past by the dawn in the law of time and space."

Bard's eyes lit up, and he seemed to understand it.

Bray pointed at the starting place where branches kept forking: "This is Link before he was summoned to Edgar. My real first encounter with him was actually here. Yes, you heard it right. In the timeline I don't know, Link entered the imitation Edgar created by the exiled second-generation god in his own world. It was a space exactly the same as the real Edgar. Not only the environment, but even life is also projected by the second-generation people based on memory. There, Link had already climbed the ladder."

"This is impossible!" After shouting, Bud realized his loss of composure and hurriedly lowered his head, but the trembling facial muscles still revealed his uneasy heart.

"So, back to the initial topic, what do you think the gods need besides power? I have asked myself countless times. The answer is simple, the will."

"Will?" is that simple? Bard couldn't believe his ears. How many people can't get the answer so simple?

"Isn't becoming a god also an embodiment of will? In order to gain more power, for individual immortality, and for domination... there are all kinds of reasons, and those who want to enthrone the gods are driven to advance to the Kingdom of God with heavy obstacles. However, he did not."

There is no need to explain the ‘he’ here, and Bud also understands that Bray refers to Link.

Even if you have obtained the body shaped by divine power, you still cannot change the fact that Link is a human being. Becoming a god is probably the most difficult among human beings. Compared with power, food, and sex, it must be strong. The person in another world has already gone up, but has never had any delusions? How is this... possible?!

"The reason is unknown, but he did go up and gave the source of pure magic power obtained from the uneroded pillar of water to me in that world. Although the great sage in the illusion is just a projection of memory, the power of the pillar of water he obtained is real. After being summoned to the real Edgar, he conveyed this power to me, in a way that he himself did not know."

"You mean... when you were sent back by Chenxi?"

Bree nodded: "We all know that he has the power of the fourth incarnation, but the Pillars of Water were corroded thousands of years ago. Others must not understand how he obtained the power of water. The answer is hidden in the projection of his own illusion. The night corresponding to the dawn is the first exiled first generation. In order to save Edgar who was destroyed by the rebellion of the gods, she used her own power of time, and the result was self-evident. After being exiled to the void, she combined other exiled second generations to create an illusion that only exists in dreams in the world where Link lives. There, she did not need to be restricted by the law. After countless failures, a qualified candidate finally succeeded."

"But... that is an illusory world after all, even if it is a projection of memory, it is only based on assumptions." Bard asked, "Even if the power is real, Link was just a mortal at that time, and his mind and ability are far inferior to that of now."

There was praise in Bray's eyes, and Bud finally understood what he wanted to express.

"Through his memory, I also understand why the pillar chose him as the son of nature and why he gave him so many authority. Bard, mortals are the most gods among all species, not how strong we are. It is because we are weak that strong wills can support them with their own beliefs and survive the storm that can destroy the soul. It is because of this that those creatures who are born powerful rarely have gods. Link does not want to be kings, does not want to be overlords, and does not want to be gods. His wish is to think of a place different from his own world and get rid of the boring reality day after day. And the moment he entered Edgar, his wish was fulfilled. As long as he stayed in this world, he could be satisfied, which is the truth that he did not even realize."

Bud was stunned when he heard this, but...so?

"Link is not without desires and desires. Zhu has realized his. All his actions afterwards are just giving back to Zhu's expectations."

It's that simple? This... is too incredible? Bud, who was confused, realized that this wasn't the secret? Why did Bree tell himself all the way? When he came to his senses, he realized that he was no longer in Hornheim's area, but in Bree's spiritual space. No wonder the critical value of God's advent has passed, and he talked so much. But why did he tell me?

Bud put a big question mark in his heart?

"Because you are qualified, but I don't want you to be the second Claire, bewildered by illusions, and be obscured by the gods." In his spiritual space, Bray showed his original appearance.

"The reason I want to use Link as a comparison is that he is sober, knows the positioning of human beings, and his limits. It is his self-knowledge and his attitude of not overly advocating gods that have delegated the highest authority of repairing barriers to him." As Blade slowly floated in the air, a translucent staircase appeared under him.

Bud's brain was blank.

The ladder! The ladder that many people cannot ask for! Bu Lei gave him a path to the gods that he can be called upon...

Accompanied by excitement and ecstasy, there is also the fear after learning the truth.

"I can tell you clearly that Claire's trial failed."

When? Bud's back felt cold and began to recall when he had never seen Claire, who was also a sage, after Link was allowed to enter the area? Or after his disciple Farlani fell? Or... After the whereabouts of the Natural Son came from Nanyanzhou were unknown?

"After I deprived her of her sage, she angrily looked for me and asked why she was so partial to a different person who knew nothing but was based on the power of the pillar. I lowered the path and let her choose by herself. If she could pass, she would naturally know the answer without listening to some facts that she didn't want to believe."

"Then she..." In fact, the answer was obvious, and Bard just couldn't help asking the previous question.

"How can idiots with only power and power in their eyes have strong will? They are confused by the illusion of losers and join them in the ranks of them without going far."

"Then you..."
Chapter completed!