The moment when Annan tore through the Ash Wall with the Brilliant Sword.
The sacred realm filled with the [Understanding] element began to operate on its own, analyzing the many buffing spells that Professor Gray had blessed on itself in advance; and using the [Strict] element to disintegrate them all...
After that, Annan immediately began to pretend to accumulate strength. Professor Gray did not have the adaptability of the radiance element, and his perception could not see through the radiance of that quality to see what Annan was doing inside.
It was even more impossible to notice that Annan actually held the [Rite of Valtore] in his left hand and activated it silently.
At the same time, Professor Gray mistakenly believed that Annan's elemental power could directly reduce the energy of the Gray Wall, so he would definitely defend on the spot with all his strength.
At this time, he did not have time to continue to re-bless himself... For example, the most classic and most useful spells of the Prophet School, the "Omen" series of spells.
Annan himself also mastered the spell "Omen of Death: Emergency Teleportation".
This "Omen" series of spells can be set in advance and triggered by themselves when certain specific conditions are met, releasing a spell or using a certain item such as teleportation, treatment, damage reduction, immunity, etc.
Through multiple overlays, a set of programming logic can even be formed. The most common ones are emergency teleportation and emergency invisibility to become invisible when being targeted by others, and teleport away just before the attack is about to hit.
The idol school, also known as the buff machine school, has the most useful blessing spells among all wizard professions.
Among them are [Holy Stance], a spell that only requires one cast to give you full resistance in a short period of time; and [Yet Far Away], a spell that extends the distance infinitely to delay the hit of an attack.
Spells; and [Mirror Image Stance], the ability to swap positions between oneself and the mirror image, allowing the illusory mirror image of oneself to eat up the skill effect, and then convert it back to achieve one-time injury avoidance; and there is also the [Bubble Stance] ability.
The absolute ability to dispel all negative effects suffered by oneself...
Combined with the triggering and omen techniques of the Prophet School, as well as the "Element of Ash" mastered by Professor Gray, and his ability to infinitely resurrect from the past...
Professor Gray is almost invincible in this era.
Let alone the ability to save one's life in terms of attack ability, even a real god may not be able to kill him.
At least Fufu definitely can't kill him.
Moreover, Fu Fu might not be able to defeat Professor Gray...
However, although these early warning spells and resistance spells are powerful, they are meaningless in the face of attacks by elemental power.
As a higher-level ability, elemental power has a higher priority and can penetrate the resistance formed by spells, just like the Gray Domain can directly kill players instantly regardless of their spells and status.
In this case, Professor Gray will temporarily give up applying buffs to himself, and instead decide to resist Annan's next attack with all his strength.
However, the power of elements is not omnipotent.
The power of elements only has a high priority. In the case of conflict between the two, the description of the power of elements will be applied first. However, the power of elements is inevitably not as comprehensive as spells in terms of precise operation and convenience.
This is like a famous joke: the weakest resistance cannot be destroyed by combat, and the strongest way to break through resistance is destruction by combat.
If Annan did not break through the gray wall in advance and remove the buff on Professor Gray, then the spell [Law: Dissolve] would be directly evaded or ineffective by the many spells entangled in Professor Gray.
But it was the foreshadowing he had laid in advance that allowed him to successfully complete [dissolution] with just one blow!
In Annan's ears, Salvatore's voice rang:
"This command spell itself does no harm and has no effect on the body or soul, so it can bypass many protective spells such as instant death protection, soul barrier, etc."
Because of this, it is not considered an attack and therefore does not trigger the Gray Wall's defensive response.
"This is a rather unconventional and high-end gold-level spell. Its damage comes from [personality]. Once this spell hits, it can temporarily penetrate your three views into the opponent's personality without any defense."
As long as the gap between Annan's and the other party's three views is large enough, under the intrusion of Annan's three views, the other party's soul will instinctively judge that his own personality is a "foreign object" and reject the part that conflicts with it.
That is, his original personality,
"When the effect of this spell ends, the other person's personality will become riddled with holes. Then the personality itself will be directly dissolved by you."
Therefore, even if Professor Gray's body is far in the past, he will be mentally contaminated by Annan's attack and hit him "along the network cable".
Because the damage caused by this spell was not given by Annan, but came from Professor Gray's own soul, the Gray Elements would not store it as "memory".
If Professor Gray had all the gray elements in his body, he could instantly turn himself into ashes and kill himself before he could be infected. But not only would all of his gray elements be used to build the wall of gray
, and he felt relaxed and grateful for having defended against this attack, and began to think about how to launch an offensive against Annan next.
He unpreparedly ate a whole dish of [Law: Dissolve].
Professor Gray suddenly felt a strong sense of self-loathing in his heart.
It's not just mental pollution...if I have to say it, it's more like being hit by the "Friendship Breaking Face Fist" or some kind of mouth escape, and I started to truly reflect on what I did.
Before this, he had never thought that he was wrong. This was not arrogance or self-confidence, but that he could not accept, let alone accept the possibility that "he was wrong".
He is like a hedgehog, hugging himself and shrinking into a ball, pointing his sharp spikes at the outside world. Although his posture seems full of aggressiveness, his essence is actually conservative, cowardly and timid.
Because his personality is inherently imperfect.
Annan previously described him as a "giant baby", which is actually right in a sense.
It's not because his ego looks like a giant baby... but because his personality is inherently unhealthy. Like a child who has not been exposed to society, his understanding of the world is quite one-sided, childish and radical.
But if we say that young children lack experience... then Professor Gray is born with a deficiency.
He was originally a divided personality, an abandoned part. His self-protection of not accepting all opinions was precisely because his own personality was imperfect.
He is innately unable to understand what "love" is, what "responsibility" is, and what "morality" is. He has no concept of the continuation and reproduction of the race, so he does not care about children and the elderly at all; he does not care about the existence of society and the country.
Therefore, he cannot understand the importance of obeying laws and morals.
He is like a wild child who has never been taught by anyone since he was a child, and has never suffered or been taught a lesson. He thinks that there is no one greater than himself in the world.
All that filled his heart was hatred, and the various emotions that hatred extended.
Jealousy, anger, revenge, anger...
At the same time, he is not stupid or unintelligent. Because he was born with knowledge and possesses wisdom and strength from the moment he was born. He also understands common sense and etiquette. He does have the capital to act willfully.
As the clone of the ancient god, no one can stop him.
And right now, right now.
Professor Gray's personality suddenly became "complete".
By chance, Annan's spell was completely successful. The missing part of Professor Gray's personality was completed by Annan.
A ray of light suddenly shone into the depths of his twisted, dark and damp soul, which was like a putrid cave.
Professor Gray's pupils narrowed slightly.
"What...have I done?"
He murmured softly and subconsciously put his hand on his forehead.
His attack suddenly stopped.
It wasn't just him who stopped now.
It’s about the present, past, future…the “grey professors” who dress exactly the same at every time point.
Their pupils suddenly dilated and an inexplicable, unspeakable fear hit their hearts.
Just like a confused mind suddenly becomes bright, and the noisy world becomes peaceful in an instant.
They do not feel happy and calm because of this, and naturally they cannot show a peaceful smile on their faces.
But at the moment of enlightenment, I felt creepy and chilled down my spine.
It's like just learning that the lottery ticket you tore up actually won the jackpot; you've already boarded the high-speed train and suddenly found that you were sitting on the wrong side of the train; or the job seeker you insulted turned out to be the chairman; or you were cheating or cheating.
Caught red-handed committing a crime...
What they have in common is that they suddenly and very clearly realized "what this really means." And before that, they had a vague premonition, but they were unwilling to believe it or admit it.
The worldview from another level of thinking, from another perspective, blasts into my mind like an avalanche, and I can only be forced to accept and acknowledge its existence.
The coldness can seep out from the teeth, between the fingers, under the eyes, the back of the neck, and every joint. The fingers and teeth can't help but tremble, and the joints all over the body make a crunching sound like being caught in the cold. The scene in front of you seems to have become clear.
The world is like a reflection of someone drunk.
The fear Professor Gray felt was even ten times or a hundred times worse.
That was the despair when he reduced his life of more than a hundred years and everything he pursued to nothing... but could only admit that "it is right".
Why
Can this world still have such an interpretation?
Why can the gap between cognition and cognition be so large?
Those things that he didn't care about before actually have such meaning? The things that he abandoned, ignored, and trampled on... are actually so precious?
The color of the world seems to have changed.
"...What on earth am I..."
Professor Gray groaned.
His three views so far are constantly being shattered.
It was as if everything he had done was reflected in his mind and marked with a big cross; and everything he had abandoned gained value again.
His personal will is extremely clear, so he knows very well that the illusion he has must come from Annan's magic; but on the other hand, he also inherited Annan's objective rationality and realistic thinking... This allows him to be universal.
Following Annan's three views, he reasoned on his own and came up with an answer that made Professor Gray even more frightened: "Annan is indeed right, but he is wrong."
You should become better yourself.
Professor Gray also inherited Annan's upward desire.
You should fight for others.
Professor Gray felt the warm blood coming from the bottom of his heart. It was not a surge that he had not seen for a long time, but he was aware of what "hot blood" meant for the first time.
And, the existence of "Gray Professor" is meaningless.
His reason, his soul, and his desires all betrayed him.
The personality of "Gray Professor" is gradually being erased by himself.
At the moment when his desire for revenge collapsed and he was completely denied himself.
He suddenly heard a hissing sound coming from somewhere.
It's like steam coming out of a pressure cooker.
Soon, Professor Gray "rationally" realized that it was the sound coming from his soul.
Like a magnesium bar being ignited, his soul burst out with brilliant fire.
His dark red soul, which looked like a blood clot, stretched out and emitted a blazing white light.
Professor Gray's soul is being "dissolved" along with his desires and personality.
The damage of [Law: Dissolve] comes from the gap between the two. The more obvious the difference between the two, the greater the damage.
From the moment he was born, Professor Gray, who only had ego and hatred in his heart... had almost nothing in common with Annan.
Whenever he has the slightest good thoughts in his heart, he can use this similarity with Annan to purify himself, and be reborn as the ashes of "Impure White" with the other side of pure kindness, which will eventually wash away the impure part.
, becomes pure and flawless.
but……
He was born with hatred, but he never thought about transcending this hatred.
Then, being eroded by Annan's personality means the complete disintegration of his soul.
His solid soul was riddled with holes by the fire of desire that changed its color.
He covered his eyes that were constantly spraying white flames with his hands, leaned back, and let out desperate wails and roars.
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Despair deeper than death, pain deeper than the burning of the soul, filled his heart at the same time.
That is not guilt or repentance for the "sins" that one has committed.
Instead, he became very clearly aware of the part that he had ignored from the very beginning.
His essence is the "hatred" of being abandoned by the graysmith.
His wish is to avenge this hatred from the graysmith.
And the deeper original wish... is to resist the fate that has been imposed on oneself, leaving one without any choice.
But he never thought about it.
Does he really have no choice?
He followed this hatred, chose the path of revenge because of the hatred, became jealous and malicious because of the spread of hatred, and then found a tragedy writer...
And everything he did, for hundreds of years, he thought he was preparing to resist fate.
This is all proof that he is walking on the [Road of Hatred] given to him by the Graysmith!
He should have noticed it long ago!
Professor Gray is not a fool, he can be called a wise man. In the past time, he has often noticed something.
Do I need to learn some new knowledge? Do I need to seriously think about what I want to do? Am I already on the wrong path?
But every time this thought came up, he arrogantly ignored it.
I can't be wrong.
because……
"...because I was once part of the Graysmith."
He murmured softly.
Just like what Annan said.
So far, what he relied on, what he relied on, what he was proud of... allowed him to embark on the so-called "road of revenge".
All are gifts from the "Graysmith".
What even made him deny that he might have made a mistake... was because of his respect for the graysmith from the bottom of his heart.
I'm part of the graysmith, how could I go wrong?
This is the original virus that Professor Gray has hidden deep in his heart and has never noticed...
"All hate comes from love."
Annan and Professor Gray said in unison, almost simultaneously.
Destroyed love.
Betrayed love.
Neglected love.
Love for your lover, love for your relatives, love for your career, love for your mission, love for your country, and... love for yourself.
Hate is born when something you value is destroyed, smashed, despised, or insulted.
Hate without love is like a tree without roots.
And what supports Professor Gray’s “hatred” is the first love...
It was the admiration for the graysmith deep in his heart.
I want to be part of the Graysmith.
Such wishes were denied, abandoned, and destroyed, and then the original "hate" was born.
"fine……"
Professor Gray's body gradually collapsed.
He murmured in a low voice: "Fortunately, I failed..."
But the "young man" behind him gradually became clear.
The clearer a person is about what he wants to do, the clearer and more orderly his noble persona will be; and vice versa.
In the last stage of Professor Gray's life, his noble identity was the clearest and most thorough.
"I really...lived in vain."
Professor Gray sighed in a low voice: "But it's okay, it's okay...
"Before I really do something irreparably stupid..."
He hasn't finished speaking yet.
The whole person disappeared silently like a dream bubble.