0692 Chapter Fourteen: The End of the Era (Section 21)
"What's her plan?" Zhen Cheng keenly captured the situation here and asked eagerly.
Lamarck's magnanimity disappointed her so much that she knew there was no threat here. What she wanted to find out most now was, of course, her teacher Qu Yun's plan.
Her thoughts and actions are as mysterious and unpredictable as ever.
Unfortunately, the moment Zhen Cheng shouted the question, a thick high-energy light passed straight through the top of the Blood Candle Keep.
The goddesses easily jumped to different dimensions to neutralize the energy attacks, but in the blink of an eye, there was no living candidate left on top of the castle.
As for the yellow hair on the glasses, not even a single cell was left.
"It's useless," the short-haired woman said with a smile, "Even if they are all unprepared cannon fodder, so what? Do you know how many candidates there are in the world?
With your current total amount of divine energy, even if you use mortal lives to fill it, how long do you think you can last?
In fact, I have actually calculated this number. One hundred hours is your limit.
Do you want to make a bet on whether the candidates I have gathered can continue to replenish the total number of kills for you for a hundred hours?
Or... in order to save his life, abandon the Blood Candle Keep and escape?
Before the Hundred Gate Hall was breached, this was really not difficult for you, right?"
Zhen Cheng continued to spend her energy to dodge the attacks.
It's not that she's unable to compete, it's that her power of speaking spirit is not suitable for frequent attacks and defenses.
Mei Bixi, Sun Nini, and Erlingyin used their own methods and tried their best to block Zhen Cheng's attacks from all directions. They all knew that their abilities were not enough to pose a threat to opponents of Lamarck's level.
Only Zhen Cheng's unpredictable and unpredictable ability, but his ability to directly mediate cause and effect and reverse reality, holds hope.
Zhen Cheng noticed that there were two students from the Magic Academy looking over at the tower of Blood Candle Castle, but they were blown to pieces without any reaction.
There are many things that cannot be changed in the world, and the mage's thirst for knowledge and desire to die are definitely among the best.
So, could she retreat as Lamarck suggested?
The answer is no.
Principal Xie Lupeng said that in the previous dragon clan revival ceremony, the core needed for the operation of the endless mechanical city was hidden inside the Blood Candle Castle.
Matar's hippocampus is a magical structure that Zhen Cheng came into contact with when he was still a mortal. It is the supreme god, the originator of all extraordinary powers, and the final legacy left after the death of Matar, the former son of the era.
It comes from the immortal body and condenses supreme memory, knowledge, and wisdom.
If the Blood Candle Keep is breached and this thing is destroyed, then the previously completed dragon clan revival ceremony is likely to be destroyed because it is not yet stable, or at least have various flaws.
And the goddesses who gain realm and power by leaping to another dimension through rituals are also likely to fall.
Although they have mastered higher levels of power, with their talents, they can regain everything by themselves in a short period of time.
But even if they can do this at a speed hundreds of times that of ordinary gods, the gears of the times may not leave them enough time.
At that time, the goddesses of Blood Candle Castle are likely to be kicked out of the chessboard from the dominant party at the core of the situation...
Without the corresponding power, anything you want to do is empty talk.
This is Qu Yun's conspiracy, and it is also the reason why Lamarck is willing to let Zhen Cheng and the others retreat.
As for why Zhen Cheng and the others didn't take the initiative to destroy Matar's hippocampus themselves despite knowing Qu Yun's plan, it was obviously because the nine disciples unanimously agreed that their purpose was to prevent the destruction of the world, not to kill the teacher.
Only children will classify objects with different stances into those who must be killed.
Adults choose to fight under a friendly table. After the fight, they can still drink and talk happily.
They know that no one can always win. Crossing that line will not help you gain an advantage in the fight, but will only make you lose everything most precious after the fight, no matter you win or lose.
position is position
, friendship is friendship.
When they compete with each other, no matter whether they win or lose, none of them can emotionally resist their teacher.
This is Qu Yun's unparalleled damn charm.
Similarly, for Lamarck, killing the [Poet Killer] is only a means to stop Qu Yun, not the goal.
Qu Yun made many big moves behind the scenes to bring his nine disciples to the forefront of history, so he must have a plan.
Lamarck couldn't figure out Qu Yun's purpose, but as long as these goddesses were forced to step down, the situation he was most worried about would not arise.
Previously, Zhen Cheng made a lot of sarcastic remarks about Lamar's magnanimity, but in fact they were mostly just psychological words.
Of course she knew how could a being standing in the heavens be so unbearable?
After several trials, it was not until Lamarck proposed that it sounded like a threat but was actually a condition for cooperation that she truly understood what the old man was thinking.
Lamarck is not the enemy of the disciples of Blood Candle Keep, nor the enemy of Qu Yun, nor even the enemy of the Supreme Holy Judiciary.
He is indeed a believer in Nuwa's thoughts. What he longs for is a future where the underworld system and the real universe complement each other, cooperate rather than compete, and everyone can develop actively instead of being constantly hostile to each other.
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Regardless of the position of power, Lamarck is the most rational and peaceful party among all the forces.
It's just sad that when everyone is eager to fight for various goals, the voice of reason will only become weak and pale.
Lamarck's calculations couldn't match Qu Yun's mind. Under the checks and balances of the interests of all parties in the real universe, there was nothing he could do against the Judiciary.
So he could only humbly and helplessly operate on these fledgling chicks who were in the middle of the vortex.
This feeble resistance may be just the old man's last stubbornness.
"You want to force me to leave? What a pity..." Zhen Cheng lowered his eyes and smiled.
A soul slash that cut through the void suddenly appeared before her eyes, leaving a ferocious scar on her body in the blink of an eye.
This was the most threatening blow she had received since the war began.
But she didn't care, because the brilliance of the second ring tone fell, and the body made of divine elements was intact in the blink of an eye:
"You will not be the teacher's opponent after all, because you stand too high, Lamarck.
Before you thought you had seen through us and set up such a big killing trap to force us to retreat...have you ever, even once, really tried to understand us?"
The short-haired woman in some kind of enchantment was stunned when she heard this.
In response to the situation, the phantom of an upright fist slammed heavily on the wall of Blood Candle Castle, smashing countless Lamarck players who were dancing around with demons into minced meat.
Duan Hu, the professor of the Taishu Academy, stood on the martial arts field and pointed at the top of the fort on Zhen Cheng's side and roared: "Who the hell dares to attack my student?! You deserve to die!"