Faced with Mephisto's so-called "invitation", Roy's first reaction was to be wary.
Although Mephisto is not a guy like Belial, the Lord of Lies, or Kil'jaeden the Deceiver, it would be a big mistake to really think that the Lord of Hatred can't lie. Like Mephisto
Such an old "devil" can't say whether one of the ten sentences he says is true.
So Roy didn't plan to pick up his topic at all, and said: "I have my own plans for which world I want to go to, so I won't bother you with that!"
What he said was not polite at all, but Mephisto was not annoyed at all. He still smiled and looked kind and said: "Young man... As the newly promoted Demon King, I call you "young man".
Have you passed? After all, I can only boast as I am older."
"Where! Are you more than just a veteran?" Roy also smiled and said condescendingly: "The name Mephisto, the King of Hatred, can make the abyss world tremble for a while just by saying it. You are too humble."
Mephisto waved his hand, sat back in his seat, held the staff of civilization in front of him, and slowly said: "Osiris, you are a newly grown demon, so you may not be aware of some situations in the abyss world.
You know, probably tens of thousands of years ago, most of us demon kings were still staying in the abyss world. During that period, we conquered each other and competed for territory. It’s funny to say that at that time, the abyss world
The war is basically fought by us demon kings... instead of like now, only the demon lords are left fighting."
"Oh?" Roy asked curiously: "Why is this happening?"
"There is no way..." Mephisto sighed: "Because in that medieval period, although the Gate of the Abyss also connected all the worlds, there were not as many worlds at that time as there are now. It can even be said to be pitiful.
At that time, once you go to other worlds, you will basically encounter angels. As soon as the two sides meet, they will fight to the death. You can't avoid it even if you want to. Although the eternal war is like this, but the time has been fighting for too long, it will also happen.
We are not only tired of the demons, but also the angels. So over time, both sides have formed some tacit understanding with each other, that is, the demon kings and archangels do not easily go to these eternal battlefields, and just let their subordinates
Demons and angels just fight among themselves."
"Then...why was the tacit understanding broken later?" Roy asked.
The reason why he asked this was that Roy also knew that it was difficult to see the demon kings in the bottom world of the abyss. This was naturally because the demon kings had gone to other worlds.
"It's because of the explosion of species!" Mephisto said a word that surprised Roy. In his surprised eyes, Mephisto explained with a smile: "To be precise, since the human race
After the birth, this tacit understanding was broken."
"Really?" Roy rubbed his chin, thoughtfully.
Mephisto smiled and said: "As you can imagine, human souls have a huge attraction for both demons and angels, so when an intelligent species like humans was born, the tacit understanding was broken! But...
…It’s just one of those things!”
"Is there any other reason?" Roy looked at him.
The look on Mephisto's face became a little strange. He reached out and smoothed his meticulously combed hair, and said: "There is another reason, that is, we have discovered that since the birth of mankind, whether it is the Gate of the Abyss or
Gate of Heaven, the number of worlds that can be connected suddenly increased, as if... as if these worlds were born with the birth of human beings, especially with the continuous development of human intelligence, some more wisdom
Races have also begun to gradually appear, and the number of worlds has also increased day by day. Especially in the past one or two thousand years, this growth rate has reached its highest peak. Even we ancients cannot tell how many worlds there are now.
."
Mephisto paused for a moment, and then said something that surprised Roy. He said: "Out of curiosity, we also tried to study human groups, and then we discovered an amazing fact.
It is with the growth of human imagination that additional parallel worlds will appear!"
"..." Roy looked at Mephisto in astonishment, never expecting that Mephisto would come to such a shocking conclusion.
When he went to other worlds and discovered familiar characters and world views, Roy once suspected that the so-called worlds were simply worlds imagined by humans, but these worlds were more real.
He thought that maybe only he knew about this, but he didn't expect that old monsters like Mephisto seemed to have already discovered this!
This really caught Roy off guard.
"Surprised, right? But judging from your expression, you seem to have discovered some truths, right?" Mephisto looked at Roy with a smile and said, "So, when you discovered this, you were a
What kind of thoughts do you have? Is there a similar thought like, 'Are we all living in a certain book?'"
This time, Roy nodded directly. He had indeed had such an idea.
"It's not just you, we old guys have also had similar thoughts!" Mephisto sighed: "This is a desperate conclusion, both for angels and demons. It was once
It almost drove us crazy, so we broke the tacit understanding and began to desperately go to other worlds we could go to, trying to find out the truth."
"What's the result?" Roy asked nervously.
"The result?" Mephisto glanced at him, with a joking expression on his face, and said: "The result is... we were all wrong!"
"Ha!?" Roy was confused by these words.
"The growth and emergence of the world is indeed related to human imagination!" Mephisto looked at Roy's distorted expression in amusement and explained: "But it is not as we guessed, we are living in a certain world.
In this two-dimensional world, in fact it should be said that human imagination is indeed the origin of all worlds, but once these worlds appear, they will in turn reflect human imagination!"
"Wait, what does this mean? Why am I a little confused? What does it mean to reflect human imagination in turn?" Roy quickly asked.
Mephisto leaned back in his seat, raised a finger and said: "For example, if a human being has an imagination and imagines a bizarre story fragment, and this imaginary story
He pondered over and over again, and even shared it with others to let more people know and become familiar with it. Then this group consciousness may affect the will of the void, causing a story fragment to be born in the void.
Related worlds come, but such a newly born world really exists, and will begin to evolve on its own based on the source point, that is, the story fragment, and this evolution will in turn produce disturbances, making it possible to know
The human being in the story fragments further perfects his imagination! But by this time, human imagination has completely turned into fiction. The real evolving world is there, but it has nothing to do with human imagination..."
"...There is such a saying!?" Roy felt even more confused. He seemed to understand, but he seemed not to understand at all.
Mephisto paused for a moment, letting Roy relax, and then continued: "Don't underestimate this conclusion. In fact, in order to understand this truth, we old guys will create clones to reduce our strength.
At the cost of entering many worlds for investigation at the same time, the clones with independent personalities are no longer willing to return, because the clones believe that they are also real individuals... Well, it's a bit far-fetched, I don't know if you have
Have you ever observed human activities, or have you read the widely circulated literary and artistic works that were born into the human world? You must know that the existence of many worlds can be traced to their literary and artistic works, but after our research, we found that
These worlds are not static, and human intervention may cause the evolution of these worlds to go in another direction, instead of continuing to follow the plot development in literary and artistic works!"
Hearing this, Roy suddenly understood. Indeed, he had noticed this before. For example, in the world of Van Helsing, it is said that Van Helsing died and Gabriel's soul fragments were also picked up by him. This is not true at all.
It conforms to the plot he knows, but the problem is that the world still exists and has not died because of it. The world of Invincible Heroes is similar. Because of his appearance, the originally familiar plot has changed beyond recognition, but Silas, the original
The dark messiah who should exist is still living well in the abyss world...
This should be the reason why Mephisto said that the world actually exists and evolves by itself...
"The world is real, and we are real too!" Mephisto saw what Roy was thinking and said: "There is no doubt about this. Although it feels a bit strange, I think this should be some kind of deep intention of the Creator. It's just that we
I just can’t understand it. Lucifer and Michael, the first generation of demons and angels, worshiped the Creator deeply, so they always wanted to find the Creator and ask for answers, but I didn’t have this idea. I am a demon, and I think as long as I do my best
Just play the role.”
"That's right to think so!" Roy nodded.
"So, the question is, as a demon, what should my role be like?" Mephisto narrowed his eyes, with a strange smile on his face.
"...Destroy the world?" Roy tilted his head and looked at him.
"Yes, I am the elf who is always in denial! As long as everything is created, it will naturally be destroyed, so it is better to have nothing happen. Humans and angels call this destruction, crime, and simply call it 'evil'.
But this is my essential attribute." Mephisto opened his hands and said: "This is also the essence of a demon!"
"Then you appear here to invite me to accompany you to destroy the world?" Roy asked a little funny: "With all due respect, the great King of Hatred Mephisto shouldn't borrow the hands of others for this kind of thing, right?
"
"This..." Mephisto showed a trace of hesitation on his face, but finally said: "Because I... encountered a problem, a huge problem... This problem is even a little beyond my control...
