The motivation that drives the Red Prime Minister Peng Bonazi to usurp the country is not madness, willfulness, power, desire... but his love for Xing Antimony.
He loves Star Antimony more than anyone else.
It's just that what he loves is the original star antimony, an "engraved" love like carving a boat to find a sword.
That was not because of love, but because of his hatred for Bashir who ascended to the dream world alone and left behind himself;
Perhaps it is not because of hatred, but because of disappointment that Valentine hates iron and cannot become steel;
Or perhaps it is not because of disappointment, but because of the beautiful memories of the pure struggle before the founding of the country;
But after all, it is not because of memories, but because of [love].
Because of the madness and selfishness of the path of love——
"No wonder," Aleister suddenly laughed, "I have tasted a bit of decay from you before, just like the bottle of wine you kept.
"At first I thought it was an illusion. After all, you have lived for so long... People always want to recall the past."
"……snort."
Peng Bonaqi's expression suddenly darkened.
He guessed what "Lady Bayard" wanted to say, but did not interrupt or deny it.
Aleister looked at his face and raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "Sure enough, you guessed it yourself...
"——Your path has deviated and gone to the [wrong] road."
That is the road above the Source River of [Error]...the twilight road that symbolizes eternity and stagnation.
The concepts of "engraving" and "reminiscence" belong to Lingbo Tiansi. In the case where Amber rarely responds to prayers, Lingbo Tiansi is the spokesperson of the Dusk Road.
The "old man smell" emitted by the red phase is not an illusion - just like rotting flesh and blood will emit a smell that attracts insects and flies. Once the extraordinary person on the path of love turns to dusk, he will become like this crazy person.
.
"Maybe."
Peng Bonazi's words gradually became sharper and no longer as polite as before: "This is also my own choice."
Probably because he has finished what he wanted to say - as the founder of Star Antimony's most prosperous era, he looks down on Star Antimony people in this era. Like a paranoid old man, he arrogantly believes that "young people don't understand anything at all."
", "This era is rotten."
Even those direct descendants whom he transformed into the Sons of the Moon, he looked down upon. Peng Bonazi believed that they did not understand him at all, nor were they worthy of understanding him.
But at the same time, he has an urgent desire to talk to others - no one can share the pressure in his heart, even if it is just a tree hole without response.
He was so eager to express his depression, just like an old player in an online game that has been replaced by a ghost server, feeling melancholy when he is alone looking at the dense gray avatars in the guild.
Looking at the sporadic stupid questions from the newcomers on the World Channel, he just wanted to sneer - they were all questions that he had enthusiastically repeated countless times in the past, but now he couldn't bring up the interest to type a single word. After all, they didn't even think about it.
They will leave soon, with no one to accompany them, and they don’t understand the lively joy they had when they were pioneering wasteland. “The games back then were not like this at all.”
But now, Baroness Bayard, who also existed in the Empire era and was a member of the same clan as the Children of the Moon, and even had a higher status than him back then, is naturally worthy of the status of "listener".
Just like when Peng Bonazi was on the verge of abandoning the game, he suddenly discovered that the guild veteran back then was back online!
——Lady Bayard, last logged in one day ago.
Naturally, Peng Bonaqi would feel a huge surprise and stay online every day. He just wanted to catch the other person online, have a good chat with him about the past, and reminisce about the past together.
But now, he has finished saying everything that should be said, and has finished remembering everything that should be remembered.
After confirming that the irreversible past was indeed irreversible... Peng Bonaqi completely let go.
"If this is really your choice, why are you so painful and confused?"
"Bayard" crossed his legs, shook his wine glass, and spoke as sharply as a knife: "In other words, do you really agree with Bashir's ideas from the bottom of your heart?
"The Way of the Star was born from the experience of an unequal empire, but it has brought more inequality. Have you really never questioned this path itself?
"The Way of Star Antimony puts the capable person at the top - but who determines the capable person? Is it the monarch? Is it the expert? Or is it just the level of the path? Could it be that if a person goes deeper on the path, he will be able to
Does it make them stronger? Is it because a person is stuck at a certain energy level because he doesn't work hard enough, or is inherently deficient and inferior?"
"——What if?"
Pomponazzi asked: "Isn't the same true for the Bayard Group? The fittest will survive and the fittest will be eliminated. This is how nature is. Being able to provide a relatively fairer fighting field has eliminated most of the unfairness."
"But the 'unfairness' you exclude is itself the biggest 'unfairness'."
Aleister refuted without hesitation: "Does a person's talent only have one direction? Does his personal success only depend on his efforts and talents? Luck, opportunity, choice, persistence and giving up, personal
Performance, social support... these factors can all be ignored?
"In the Way of Star Antimony, the so-called 'winners' will always continue to compare themselves upward, and the 'losers' will completely lose their dignity. People will not openly pity the weak, because they are just 'the eliminated', the ones who have been eliminated.
Screened sand from gold. People will think that their failure is either due to stupidity or laziness... Weakness has become the original sin at this moment.
"Prince Szijjarto is already quite talented as an alchemist. He can reach the third energy level at this age. In the future, when he has a deeper understanding of the way of balance, he will only be able to reach the fourth energy level.
A matter of time.
"Albert is undoubtedly a genius, but he himself also feels pressured by the huge expectations placed on him by society. In order to be recognized within this social system, he must continue to become stronger - all personal achievements other than his own job are
If you cannot be recognized by society, you will only be regarded as a plaything and a loser.
"In the eyes of outsiders, they are already quite successful people, and they are all real big shots. However, they are still subject to the expectations of others and are tortured by everyone's gaze... because they are once again in a new evaluation system, with new people.
The strong ones continue to fight. This cycle repeats itself, never ending, never ending. Like a ouroboros biting its tail, there is no end.
"And once they fall, their former glory will turn into sharp knives. People are eager to trample these people who fall from heights, as if it proves that everyone is also a loser. It seems that their own failures can be forgiven
of.
"On the other hand, if a person becomes a strong person in this system, then he will naturally think that everything he gets is what he deserves. It is logical and natural for him to enjoy all this, because he is the embodiment of perfection.
In terms of personality, essence, talent and efforts, he is higher than the loser... and everyone under his feet is relatively a loser.
"——Just like you."
Aleister said word by word: "This is a disease, the disease of snake body and mind - the Ouroboros of the way of transcendence has bewitched you. It has caused you to embark on a road with no head and no tail, and it will never be the same.
A paradoxical path to the possible end.”
It was like a Möbius ring.
Originally, Aleister believed that Star Antimony should generally adhere to the principle of balance.
The Wangli Alchemy Association, the Demon Society, the Ziggurat, the Red Castle...many forces gather together here to maintain a dangerous balance. Any party that takes the lead will be suppressed by the other parties. Therefore, in this infinite world
Swinging and spiraling upward.
But now Aleister realizes deeply that all this is just a disguise.
The essence of the Star Antimony Way is meritocracy, and what those alchemists pursue is the way of transcendence.
The only difference is that the demonologists of the society follow the Fallen Sky Division, while the alchemists follow the Huantian Division.
As the original founder of alchemy, Huan Tiansi does have the possibility of being followed by alchemists.
"Bashir...Valentine I," Aleister looked at the gloomy-looking Pomponazzi and asked, "He is the apostle of Huantiansi, right?"
"So what?"
Pomponazzi defended it, as if he was defending himself: "From the frozen stagnant water, even the emergence of a circulating river is a kind of progress!"
"——Is that considered a kind of progress or a kind of 'transcendence'?"
Aleister continued to torture Pomponazzi.
Finally, Peng Bonaqi seemed to be unable to bear it any longer.
"Heh...isn't it the same with the Bayard Consortium?"
Peng Bonazi counterattacked: "Obviously you are a family of ritual masters serving the Snake Father, but you are married to a family of witches - who didn't know back then that you responded to Ying Tiansi's embrace?"
Coming.
Aleister's heart moved, and he realized that Pomponazzi had somewhat broken his guard.
So she frowned while pretending to be unhappy, and defended feebly, trying to find out more secrets: "Curse and ritual... are not separate. They are both the path to transcendence, so what's the difference?"
"
"Haha... the difference? Isn't the curse skill of transcending the path passed down by your Bayard family? I feel that the power of the ritual is too mild, and I will do whatever it takes for the path of transcendence, absorbing talents and skills from all over the world, including curses
, deceit and potions—even betraying the very way of transcendence.
"It is precisely because of these skills that the Bayard Consortium was able to reach the top of the empire in just twenty years. Every bit of your family's wealth is stained with blood and curses!
"If we are tainted by the way of transcendence, you have never escaped from the way of transcendence."
Peng Bonaqi's fingers hit the armrest hard, causing it to make a crunching sound.
He frowned slightly, looking a little anxious and annoyed.
Looking at the silent Baroness Bayard, Peng Bona questioned repeatedly: "Did you really go to the beginning of time? I think you went to the ancient country of Anxi to study. You were far from being so vicious in your words.
Zhongdu seems to have a stabbing knife.
"I know you went to Avalon after you came back - why, were you checking on the maintenance of the curses you sold in the past? I heard that you fell in love with Aiwass of the Moriarty family... I'm afraid this is also a witch
Is he good at deceptive love?
"The curse of oblivion that surrounds the Moriarty family was originally imposed by your mother! In order to complete this curse, you still keep the reward that the first generation Moriarty pledged to you, right? Now the seventh life has long passed
Now, the curse should have expired - but do you really plan to return the deposit to them?"
Seeing that Bayard still remained silent, Peng Bonaqi snorted coldly, as if he felt a little proud of the victory of his words: "You may have forgotten, but I have not forgotten -
"Mordred's Sword of Clarent was with you in the past, right? But have you ever returned it to Aiwass? I think... probably not?"
"That's enough."
Aleister breathed out, feeling satisfied.
"——It's indeed enough."
Peng Bonaqi frowned and replied in a low voice: "I've had enough with you.
"I'm disappointed, Lady Bayard. I thought we were the same kind of people..."
The bottom of his pupils shone with a bloodthirsty and murderous dark red light.